UUCP Directories deleted.

[Bob Willey]

In article <205 at vela.acs.oakland.edu> srodawa at vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa) writes:
>Using HDB UUCP in Xenix 2.3.2, if an account is given the uucico shell,
>the the home directory is placed in /usr/spool/uucp.  But, uudaemon.clean
>will eventually delete it.  Way to go!


We have run into this problem, however there is a rather easy way
to get around this problem.
We create a file (we call it .dd) and just remove the write 
privledges from the file in the home directory of the account
created (i.e.  /usr/spool/uucp/uutest/.dd)
Then uudaemon.clean will leave the directory intact and everything
will be fine.  You will notice that the problem surfaces as 
the remote system able to call in, but locking (or appearing to
stop) at the point of waiting for a passwd reply.  Since it doesn't
find any account directory, it cannot continue.  We orignally tracked
this one down by running uutry from the remote end.
Hope this helps.

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