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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 23:15:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: uucp
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Dean Hollister wrote:

> 
> Hiyall,
> 
> On running uustat -s, it returns the error message:
> 
> uustat: /etc/uucp/sys: fopen: Permission denied
> 
> Any ideas?

su to root first.

It's trying to access protected information.  Anything security minded in
there?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major