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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: wcp@lpds.sublink.org (Walter C. Pelissero) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Sharing a modem between FlexFAX and Kermit? Date: 17 Feb 1995 19:38:55 -0600 Organization: Sweet home under white clouds Lines: 17 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <WCP.95Feb17201240@lpds.lpds.com> References: <kientzleD2M43C.8D6@netcom.com> <GENE.95Jan21172448@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> <3h44cb$7e@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <3h94is$agc@eplet.mira.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu In article <3h94is$agc@eplet.mira.net.au> gfm@werple.mira.net.au (Graham Menhennitt) writes: Graham> Is it just me or has somebody else had problems with pppd and Graham> tip using incompatible locking on FreeBSD 2.0R. One creates Graham> its lock in /usr/spool/uucp while the other uses Graham> /usr/spool/lock. (I'm doing this from memory so I may have got Graham> the actual names wrong). I had a similar problem. Uucico makes lock files in /usr/spool/lock and tip in /usr/spool/uucp. Since I have the impression that tip is a bit unused and the rest of FreeBSD community seems to prefer the SysV style of locking, I patched tip to make such lock files. This only for better portability of future package I may install. My initial intention was to patch uucico... -- P4 32 8 @A ^@@A ^@@Ax^@@A ^@DA"^@D]%xJe&H1\236\331\306