releasing serial ports after killing cu

Alexis Rosen alexis at panix.uucp
Mon Nov 26 19:57:40 AEST 1990


cu (and all the other programs that respect uucp's locking protocol) creates
lock files in /usr/spool/uucp. If it grabs tty1, it will make a file called
LCK..tty1 and place in it its process ID.

Unfortunately, cu is broken, as are some (all) of the other programs. They are
supposed to check for (and remove) stale locks, but they don't.

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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