Subject: Re: Trying to talk to tty01 with cu...
To: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/02/1999 16:13:41
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, R. C. Dowdeswell wrote:

> On 936232389 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
> "William R. Dickson" wrote:
> >
> >I do have read/write permission (I'm running it as root, I assume I should
> >be able to read/write anything I want).
> 
> cu doesn't run as root, though.  cu is setuid uucp, and it really
> wants the ttys to be owned by uucp.  The "locking" that it talks
> about is pretty simple.
> 
> 
> Same thing.  Tip is setuid uucp and can't open the files if they aren't
> owned by uucp.

Doh! That'd do it!

Or make it group writable. Neither tip nor cu are setgid. :-)

Take care,

Bill