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minicom -- Cannot create lockfile. Sorry.

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Victor S. Miller

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Jun 1, 2001, 8:54:00 PM6/1/01

When I installed a new version of minicom (1.83.1-8), I can no longer
use it as an ordinary user. I get the message "Cannot create
lockfile. Sorry". The lock file is set to /var/lock (I'm running RH
7.0), and if I run as root it does create the file
/var/lock/LCK..ttyS1

Do I need to change permissions somewhere?

ls -ldg /var/lock yields:

drwxrwxr-x 4 root uucp 4096 Jun 1 20:50 /var/lock

Any suggestions?

Victor Miller

Dean Thompson

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Jun 2, 2001, 1:58:01 AM6/2/01

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Hi Victor,

> When I installed a new version of minicom (1.83.1-8), I can no longer
> use it as an ordinary user. I get the message "Cannot create
> lockfile. Sorry". The lock file is set to /var/lock (I'm running RH
> 7.0), and if I run as root it does create the file
> /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1

Do you really want to run Minicom as a user other than root ?

>
> Do I need to change permissions somewhere?
>
> ls -ldg /var/lock yields:
>
> drwxrwxr-x 4 root uucp 4096 Jun 1 20:50 /var/lock

You could either add yourself to the uucp group or perhaps create a new group
called "serial" and change the group ownership of /var/lock to "serial".
Either way, you will have to give yourself write access to the /var/lock
directory.

See ya

Dean Thompson

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