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From: dws@cseg.uucp (David W. Summers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Help with postnews on a 3b2
Summary: Check your /usr/spool/uucp permissions and owner.
Keywords: uux fails sometimes
Message-ID: <596@cseg.uucp>
Date: 7 Sep 88 14:04:54 GMT
References: <331@amyerg.UUCP>
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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In article <331@amyerg.UUCP>, root@amyerg.UUCP (Admin) writes:
> Have news installed on my 3B2/300 at home, and have no problems with receiving
> news. But when I try to follow-up to an artice from my console, I get:
> uux failed (-1)
> twice.
> [...]
> When I try that command I get:
> stty: not a typewriter
> stty: not a typewriter
> [..]
> Any ideas on how to fix this?

I had this problem while trying to set up a new uucp connection yesterday.
What I found out was that the permissions and owner of the /usr/spool/uucp
directory and some of its subdirectories were not owned by uucp and/or were
not set to the correct permissions.  Also (if you are using HDB UUCP) check
to make sure that the /usr/spool/locks directory is writeable by uucp.

                         Hope this helps!

                         - David Summers
                         (dws@cseg.uucp)
                         (..!romed!cseg!dws)