From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralph Alvy Subject: Re: Using modem under dosemu 1.1.5 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:08:02 -0700 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <200307142334.54962.dr.claudia.neumann@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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 >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >