Buggy UUCP (was: Re: Bell Tech 386 SysVr3)

[Wolf-D. Biburger]

In article <193 at dcs.UUCP> wnp at dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
>In article <394 at marob.MASA.COM> daveh at marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>>In article <385 at pigs.UUCP> haugj at pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes:
>>(such as Kermit, ProComm or `CU') placed the LCK.. files there. The
>>new uucico (having been started from some daemon) seems to disbelieve
>>these `foreign' LCK.. files and unlinks them.
the problem may also occur, if those programs (kermit etc.)
place the 'LCK..'-files in '/usr/spool/uucp/' but 'uucico'
in '/usr/spool/uucp/LCK/'

>I believe that's because of the way UUCP-related programs determine the
>validity of lock files.
I don't think so - there are instructions inside the programs, to
check the existance of the 'LCK..'-file, but not any contents of it.
those 'LCK..'-files work as a semaphor (see the name....) and
if they exist a long time there may get up a 'uuclean'-process,
to check the age of all files in '/usr/spool/uucp/' see '..../crontab'

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