From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 22:52:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA06301 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.71]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA06261 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00756; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:52:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Richard Olson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tip - lock open: In-Reply-To: <323A1C61.2A55@ns.awanet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Richard Olson wrote: > I am attempting to teach myself UNIX. You get what you pay for! > > Read all docs I could find and understand. > > Problem: when I try to run 'tip hayes' I get msg: > "lock open: no such file or directory > all ports busy". Check out the directory /var/spool/lock. The UUCP-style lock files are stored there. Make sure it exists and has permissions of the following: drwxrwxr-x 2 uucp 68 512 Sep 13 21:44 lock/ > Pre problem: > I used 'tip' from /root successfully and connected to my ISP. > I tried to use tip from 2nd virtual console and receive above msg. Make sure you don't have a second copy of tip you've left running. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major