a uucp unlock program

[Chip Salzenberg]

In article <3289 at killer.UUCP> chip at killer.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>
>As long as you are fixing this problem, there is another one you could
>fix at the same time.  It LCK.XQT is old, uuxqt will assume it is stale
>and remove it.

Well, you can define SPOOLNEWS (like I did) so that rnews doesn't run for
so long.

But failing that, just put this command in root's crontab:

    # Make sure that LCK.XQT is touched hourly.
    0  *   *   *   *   touch -c /usr/spool/uucp/LCK.XQT

Oh, and don't forget to make sure that a line like

	rm -f /usr/spool/uucp/LCK.*

is in your /etc/rc file, just in case of a system crash.

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