this is with rh9, which are you using? What are the permissions for /var and /var/lock?
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Ralph Alvy wrote: > Hmmm...doesn't seem to help me. I still get the same error message as usual. > > Justin Zygmont wrote: > > 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 > > > > > - > 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
