[15999] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.1.18: modem/kermit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Jun 28 10:59:30 1998
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:59:29 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[15993] in Athena Bugs"
Hi, Roger. I don't think this is really a bug, just a case of
confusing error messages. Your "set line" command failed, probably
because of /var/spool/locks.
It's unfortunate that you can only run kermit from the modem locker as
root, because of its UUCP locking support (the /var/spool/locks
problem). I'm not sure if it's wise to disable UUCP locking or not.
I'm also not sure what our behavior is under 8.2, where kermit is
actually built as part of the release.
