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From: olapw@olgb1.oliv.co.uk (Tony Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sys V uugetty problem
Keywords: sys V, uugetty, cu
Message-ID: <16469@olgb1.oliv.co.uk>
Date: 20 Feb 90 17:58:25 GMT
References: <20286@bcsaic.UUCP>
Organization: British Olivetti Ltd.,AT&T Division, London, England.
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In article <20286@bcsaic.UUCP> carroll@bcsaic.UUCP (Jeff Carroll) writes:
>
>	I have a modem on a serial port on my System V/386 box which I
>	would like to use for dialout as well as dialin. getty works fine, [but]
>	uugetty doesn't seem to be able to open the tty line. Running   
>	cu -d -ltty00 the system tells me "CAN'T ACCESS DEVICE".

It might be the ownership on /dev/tty00 - cu runs setuid uucp, so tty00 should
be 622 mode *and owned by uucp*

On your cu -d output, do you get

blahblahblah...
mlock tty00 succeeded
generic open failed, errno = 13
more blahblahblah

If so, that's your problem (errno 13 is EACCES - ie "permission denied").
If that's the case, just chown uucp /dev/tty00 and it should be OK.

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