I got it now, all it was the $ttylocks setting in dosemu.conf.  This 
should be set to /var/lock instead of the default "" which points to the 
depreciated /usr/spool/uucp directory, that didn't exist. 



On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Claudia Neumann wrote:

> Am Montag, 14. Juli 2003 08:28 schrieb Ged Haywood:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> > > I'm suprised to see that I cannot add [write] permissions to others for
> > > the /var/lock dorectory.  It just stays at 775.  Has anyone else had this
> > > or know why?  i'm using rh9.
> >
> > You can, but I think you'll find that in your startup scripts, Red Hat
> > have put a command which sets those permissions at boot time.  It's a
> > historical Unix-type thing.  You shouldn't need to be doing that to
> > files in /var/lock anyway, it's a terrible security hole.
> >
> 
> You could change the lock-directory in your .dosemurc for example to
> 
> $_ttylocks = "/home/user/dosemu/lock" 
> 
> and the problem with wright permission and security is solved.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Claudia
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