Re: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Cheryl Homiak (chomiak@chartermi.net) spake thusly:
> Ok, I restored everything as before as far as the partition permission and
> /etc/fstab and rebooted to be sure, then used "chmod  a+rw /var/lock". That
> worked. The output of "ls -dl lock" is now
> drwxrw-rw- 2 root root" etc.
> I relogged in.
> Ran dosemu as me wit the debugging option.
> Still no com ports; still because you must be suid root.
> Having read some other posts on this through google, I really think the problem
> is in the dosemu coding and not in my lock permissions now, because they are now
> ok.

I wouldn't be so sure -- you are missing the execute bits.

Dima
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