mgetty rpm question

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>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Molina <tmolina@probe.net> writes:

 Thomas> Does anyone have experience with the rpm of mgetty in the
 Thomas> contrib directory at RedHat? I downloaded and installed
 Thomas> that rpm and am having trouble with lock files.

 Thomas> I use diald to manage the ppp link and can get it to put a
 Thomas> lock file in /var/lock. However, as configured, mgetty
 Thomas> puts its lock in /var/lock/uucp. According to the docs,
 Thomas> policy.h is the place to change the lock file location.
 Thomas> Is that file only read during compile? Most *.h files are
 Thomas> only used during compile to my knowledge.

 Thomas> I guess the question boils down to this: Is there any way
 Thomas> to dynamically configre where mgetty puts its lock files,
 Thomas> or are there plans to make this configurable? Is my only
 Thomas> choice to acquire the source files and recompile for my
 Thomas> system? I'd prefer to use the rpm, but I can recompile
 Thomas> and install if necessary.

You might be able to cheat and put a symbolic link in one of those
directories pointing to the real lock file in the other directory. :->

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