Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!jeff@ISI-VAXA.ARPA From: jeff@ISI-VAXA.ARPA (Jeffery A. Cavallaro) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: TIP BUG/ADDED HAYES 1200 SUPPORT Message-ID: <3144@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 19:35:40 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3144 Posted: Tue Nov 12 19:35:40 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 02:59:58 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 25 I don't know if anyone has noticed, but tip(1c) has a bug in it. The file uucplock.c has a #define NAMESIZE that is too small. It should be increased from 15 to about 32. This bug was preventing non-root users from reusing lines because lock files were not being created and deleted properly. I also noticed a couple of other points on our systems that may or may not be helpful to other sites: 1. The UUCP lock area does not have to be writable by world since lock files are created by a setuid executable. 2. Some coordination is needed between target device ports and the tip program: a. The target /dev/xxxx must be accessible to the uucp user. I believe that this must be done in rc.local since /dev files come up root 644. b. Of course, setuid root will override everything. In addition, I have hacked up an existing module to provide support for HAYES 1200's. I would be glad to supply this to the lazy people out there (it really isn't hard...) Jeff