/usr/lib/uucp/uucico ignores LCK.. files

[Roger A. Cornelius]

>From article <171 at libove.UUCP>, by root at libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove):
> 
> [ I posted something about this before, but got little response, and I
>   have reason to believe it died before going too far from my site ]
> 
> I have a SCO Xenix 80286 v2.2.1 system, and it has one modem, which I
> use for manual dial out as well as automatic dial out for UUCP connections.
> 
> While I am using it manually, if a cron job comes up that calls 
> /usr/lib/uucp/uucico, the LCK.. file in /usr/spool/uucp/ will be ignored
> and I will get the modem commands being fired out on the line while I
> am connected over it! As yet, this has beena nuisance, but I suppose it
> stands to be damaging eventually.
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I've noticed the (almost) same thing on my system.  I'm also using
2.2.1 on a 286 with the telebit utility files.  I usually use a
script which calls cu to dial out with, but at any rate, if uucico
starts up while I'm using the line, it removes my LCK file, but
then dies.  It doesn't try to initalize the modem.  The only
reason I even noticed this was because I get a "Can't unlink LCK
file" error when cu exits.

Try dialing out with cu and see if you still get the initialization
strings for the modem.  I've only had uucp running shortly, so
I'm not sure how things acted before I started using the telebit
versions.

Roger Cornelius
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