mgetty rpm question

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Hi,

Thomas Molina wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with the rpm of mgetty in the contrib 
> directory at RedHat? I downloaded and installed that rpm and am 
> having trouble with lock files.
> 
> I use diald to manage the ppp link and can get it to put a lock file 
> in /var/lock. However, as configured, mgetty puts its lock in 
> /var/lock/uucp. According to the docs, policy.h is the place to 
> change the lock file location. Is that file only read during 
> compile? Most *.h files are only used during compile to my knowledge.

You have to recompile if the location of the lock file changes.

The reason behind this is: on a given system "X", there is *ONE* place for
the lock file, and *exactly* one place. There is nothing configurable
about this.

The above "counter example" is really only an example of a broken binary
distribution *sigh*

For a quick fix, you can just make a symlink /var/lock -> /var/lock/uucp.
Alternatively, re-compile mgetty from the sources - which is fairly easy
under Linux.

(Do *not* get mgetty 1.1.3, it is broken - my fault - get 1.0.0 or 1.1.2,
or wait for 1.1.4)

gert

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