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Re: modem lock file's location



Ariel Biener wrote:
> 
> 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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for me (I have redhat5.2 and I'm using dip) the locked files are situed
on:
/var/lock
My modem is on cua3 and the lock file is
/var/lock/LCK..cua3