piziali@convex.com (Andy Piziali) (01/06/91)
I have run into some strange behavior of /usr/bin/uucp recently which I cannot
explain so I'm turning to your UUCP expertise for help.
If I start with zero length L_stat and R_stat files and run /usr/bin/uucp to
initiate a remote file transfer, uucp removes the /usr/lib/uucp/R_stat file.
The following is a log which demonstrates the problem on my IBM Xenix 1.02
system (Microsoft Xenix 3.0), which basically runs UUCP version 2:
% umask
22
% id
uid=4(uucp) gid=4(uucp)
% pwd
/usr/lib/uucp
% ls -dl /usr/lib/uucp
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 640 Jan 5 21:15 /usr/lib/uucp/
% ls -il ?_*
110 -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 137 Jan 5 21:07 L_stat
498 -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 0 Jan 5 21:05 L_sub
103 -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 0 Jan 5 21:12 R_stat
475 -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 0 Jan 5 21:06 R_sub
% /usr/bin/uucp -m -x9 convex!~/piziali/x ~
** START **
UID 4, User uucp,PATH /usr/lib/uucp
file1 - ~/piziali/x
receive file - 1
file - C.convexn2661
Enter us_crs, cfile: C.convexn2661
Enter us_open, file: /usr/spool/uucp/rstat.0015571
normal return from us_open.c
Enter us_open, file: /usr/lib/uucp/R_stat
normal return from us_open.c
link /usr/lib/uucp/R_stat fails in us_crs.c
% ls -il ?_*
110 -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 137 Jan 5 21:07 L_stat
498 -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 0 Jan 5 21:05 L_sub
475 -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 0 Jan 5 21:06 R_sub
It appears as though uucp fails to create a file system link to
/usr/lib/uucp/R_stat. A second symptom of this UUCP problem are the following
messages on the IBM PC-AT console each morning:
no file
no file
no file
no file
no file
They appear to have been displayed once per hour, each time uucico is run. It
apparently doesn't like to see /usr/lib/uucp/R_stat missing.
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I am running a close relative of version 7 UUCP, bundled with IBM Xenix 1.0 on
an IBM PC-AT. Xenix 1.0 is a repackaged Microsoft Xenix 3.0. The problem I am
having is this: the "uucp" program removes the /usr/lib/uucp/R_stat file.
Given an existing /usr/lib/uucp/R_stat with the following owners and file
permissions:
-rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp 0 Mar 31 20:37 /usr/lib/uucp/R_stat
if I run "uucp," which is installed like this:
-rws--x--x 1 uucp uucp 27341 Aug 31 1984 /usr/bin/uucp*
the file /usr/lib/uucp/R_stat is removed. There seems to be no adverse effect
in terms of UUCP transfers but the message
File /usr/lib/uucp/R_stat access denied
is displayed by both "uucp" and "uustat" and "uustat" is not able to report on
UUCP job status.
Why would "uucp" be deleting this file?
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