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From: pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: tip com2 prob on 386bsd0.1...
Keywords: 386bsd, tip
Message-ID: <Jul.30.18.54.00.1992.27132@pilot.njin.net>
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:54:01 GMT
References: <b2pmk--.kwan@netcom.com>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low) writes:

>I'm still having prob. tip to com2 on a fully installed 386bsd0.1
>tip com2 or tip com02
>file lock: no such file or directory
>all ports are busy

I did "chmod a+w /var/lock/uucp" & also had to change the permissions
of /dev/com2 to 777.  I suspect there's a more secure way to do this,
but security isn't much of an issue, now is it?

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Jay Pfaffman, Computer Coordinator        pfaffman@pilot.njin.net
Dwight-Englewood School, 315 E. Palisade Ave.                      
Englewood, NJ  07631-0489                 201-569-9500