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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:17:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: uucp
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Dean Hollister wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > su to root first.
> 
> bash# uustat -s ramtops
> 
> generates the same response. /etc/uucp/sys belongs to uucp and the uucp
> group. All privs are set to at least read. group/owner set to rw.

What about /etc/uucp?  Mine is uucp:uucp mode 770.  

You could also add yourself to the uucp group.

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