Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:10:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: UUCP Message-ID: <20001003171050.M1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20001003102507.A98579@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>; from wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:25:07AM %2B0300 References: <20001003094902.A358@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20001003163553.I1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001003102507.A98579@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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On Tuesday, 3 October 2000 at 10:25:07 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> [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
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