dgc@euphemia.math.ucla.edu (David G. Cantor) (11/22/90)
The manual entry for tip states that the lock file(s) is (are) /usr/spool/uucp/LCK..* . In fact, it is (they are) /usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..* and if the directory /usr/spool/LCK doesn't exist or is not writeable by the effective user of tip, then tip won't work. Standard tip doesn't seem to miss this directory (if it wants the directory) it creates it. This may seem minor, but while using kermit I had written a shell script to remove all lock files (because occasionally I had a kermit crash) and I did this with the command /bin/rm -rf /usr/spool/LCK* which removed the directory that tip wanted. This prevented me from running tip and I didn't know why. Nor did anyone else that I asked. dgc David G. Cantor Department of Mathematics University of California Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 Internet: dgc@math.ucla.edu