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From: amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: "tip" leaves device file exclusively open
Message-ID: <318@taux02.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 88 23:04:47 GMT
References: <137@abekrd.UUCP>
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel Home of the 32532
Lines: 11
Hdate: 12 Kislev 5749

Check permissions  to /usr/spool/uucp.   tip creates  a lock  file there
(usually LCK.something)  as user uucp,  then does  a setuid to  the user
that  runs it.   In some  versions, it  forgets to  setuid back  to uucp
before  removing the  lock, so  the remove  fails and  the lock  is left
intact.  Sometime  the only solution  is to make the  directory writable
(shudder).
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	Amos Shapir				amos@nsc.com
National Semiconductor (Israel) P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel
Tel. +972 52 522261  TWX: 33691, fax: +972-52-558322
34 48 E / 32 10 N			(My other cpu is a NS32532)