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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix uucp problems
Summary: Check ownership of uucp programs.
Keywords: xenix uucp
Message-ID: <344@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 88 18:51:21 GMT
References: <266@psm.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.UUCP (Dave Hammond)
Organization: 18th Street Construction Co NY NY
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In article <266@psm.UUCP> jct@psm.UUCP (John Tompkins) writes:
>We have 4 IBM-ATs runing XENIX 2.2.1 at various locations. We use uuto,
>to update remote locations with updated software we create. About a year ago
>one of the remotes, that had been working fine, decided it wanted to start
>receiving files in "/receive ..." instead of the correct "~/receive ..." where ~
>would be /usr/spool/uucppublic. [...]

My bet is on one or more of the uucp files owner id changing to root,
hence ~/receive is correctly expanded to /receive.  Check the owner and
group ids of all files in /usr/lib/uucp.  Also be sure that the cron file
which invokes uucico is named uucp, so cron executes it as setuid uucp.

Dave Hammond
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