keith@imagen.UUCP (Keith Rich) (12/13/89)
I recently noticed a problem with tip on a BSD4.3 system. It tells me "all ports busy" unless I am root. It wasn't always this way, so I suspect I mis-configured something. I've checked the ownership (uucp/daemon) and permissions (666) on the tty in question and they seem to be in order. The port works correctly for uucico transfers and there are no outstanding locks in /usr/spool/uucp. Can anyone suggest where I should look to isolate the problem? Thanks, Keith Rich - keith@imagen.com
keith@imagen.UUCP (Keith Rich) (12/15/89)
I have found and fixed my problem with tip. Thanks to those who mailed me suggestions. The solution involved the permissions on tip itself rather than on the tty device where I had been focusing. I had two copies of tip (/usr/bin and /usr/local/bin) which I had skipped past, and the /usr/local/bin copy was not setuid. So, it mattered what order these directories were in my path. Keith Rich keith@imagen.com