Re: Using modem under dosemu 1.1.5

[Ralph Alvy <ralvy@compuserve.com>]

Hmmm...doesn't seem to help me. I still get the same error message as usual.

Justin Zygmont wrote:
> I got it now, all it was the $ttylocks setting in dosemu.conf.  This 
> should be set to /var/lock instead of the default "" which points to the 
> depreciated /usr/spool/uucp directory, that didn't exist. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> 
> 
>>Am Montag, 14. Juli 2003 08:28 schrieb Ged Haywood:
>>
>>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Justin Zygmont wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm suprised to see that I cannot add [write] permissions to others for
>>>>the /var/lock dorectory.  It just stays at 775.  Has anyone else had this
>>>>or know why?  i'm using rh9.
>>>
>>>You can, but I think you'll find that in your startup scripts, Red Hat
>>>have put a command which sets those permissions at boot time.  It's a
>>>historical Unix-type thing.  You shouldn't need to be doing that to
>>>files in /var/lock anyway, it's a terrible security hole.
>>>
>>
>>You could change the lock-directory in your .dosemurc for example to
>>
>>$_ttylocks = "/home/user/dosemu/lock" 
>>
>>and the problem with wright permission and security is solved.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Claudia
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