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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
