kaufman@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) (05/22/88)
'cu' can be invoked by an unprivledged user, but when that happens it cannot release the LCK file, thus hanging the line until a privledged user removes the LCK. Is there a problem with ownership? 'cu' is owned by root, but the lockfile is in a directory owned by uucp. Apparently 'cu' is releasing suid before removing the LCK file (or I have it configured wrong... but if 'cu' is owned by uucp, it can't get the tty). Why doesn't 'cu' actually do the dialing specified in L.sys (it seems that the Hayes dialer code was left out of the first version of uucp, et.al. since the phone number field is not being used) Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)