From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 0:41:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E199E37B66C for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 00:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e937evs02564; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:10:57 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:10:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: UUCP Message-ID: <20001003171050.M1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20001003094902.A358@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20001003163553.I1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001003102507.A98579@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001003102507.A98579@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>; from wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:25:07AM +0300 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 3 October 2000 at 10:25:07 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Greg Lehey [20001003 10:07]: > =>When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > =>If you don't, I may ignore the reply. > =>On Tuesday, 3 October 2000 at 9:49:02 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > =>> Whenever I try to su uucp from root my terminal locks.. Any help?? > => > =>"Well don't do that then". > > Well, I am running a TPC.INT Cell which was in the final test stage > today and there were some faxes in the queue which I needed to touch > so that they can be moved up the queue ....and that requires me to > su - uucp I don't know what you're doing there, but su - uucp won't do it for you. If you need a shell account with the same permissions as uucp, you'll have to add a second user. > =>Do you intend to talk uucp protocol to your terminal? The shell for > =>user uucp is uucico, and that's what *it* speaks. Wait a minute or > =>two, and it'll get bored and go away. > > I guess so...if that is what it will require so that I reschedule the > faxes.. Basically, 'su uucp' is an error. It will resolve itself after a couple of minutes, but nothing else will change. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message