uupick on hp 550 running hp-ux

[Mark Steven Jeghers]

Can anyone help me with a frustrating uucp bug?  It involves uupick.
When uupick is invoked, it goes through it's usual routine of displaying
one received file at a time and asking what to do with it.  THe problem
is that whenever I tell it where to move the file to, I am told that that
directory cannot be accessed.  Thie happens regardless of the ownerships
and permissions of the directory.  Even in a directory of my own, in my
current group, with 777 permission, this error occurs.  The error goes
away, however, if I am super-user or root.

Obviously I cannot give root power to anyone who merely wants to use
public file transfers!  Please e-mail and I will post results and
credits afterwards.

I am running HP-UX on an HP 550.  I am not discounting the possibility
of bugs in HP's own implementation of UN*X and/or uucp (after all, nobody's
perfect).  Any ideas, HP people?

Thanx,

Mark Jeghers

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