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Re: modem lock file's location



On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Erez Boym wrote:


/var/spool/uucp  (should be).


What's the mode of that dir on your machine ?

--Ariel
> Hi,
> 
> Trying to use my modem as a non SU user I get the following message:
> "Can't create modem lock file"
> 
> Now since pppd runs perfectly as SU I suppose that it's a permission
> problem. My non SU user has no permission to write to a directory that
> my SU user can write to.
> 
> Where is that directory ?
> 
> Where does Linux write it's lock files ?
> 
> (RH 5.2)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Erez
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