[Cialug] uucp-style lock files?

[Nathan C. Smith]

I'm trying to set up sendpage 'http://www.sedpage.org' to send pages to my
pager.  I'm getting an error in messages about the lockfile.  Are lockfiles
something I need to create or should they have been created for me?

Here are the messages:

Jul 19 10:34:39 nagios sendpage[3881]: skytel/q112178727903881000:
state=Queued, to=smith_skytel, from=smith at ipmvs.com(localhost), size=23
Jul 19 10:34:49 nagios sendpage[3522]: Modem 'sportster': cannot access
lockfile '/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0': Permission denied
Jul 19 10:34:49 nagios sendpage[3522]: No modems available
Jul 19 10:34:49 nagios sendpage[3522]: proto startup failed (All modems
presently in use)
Jul 19 10:34:49 nagios sendpage[3522]: skytel/q112178727903881000:
state=Temp-Failure, to=smith_skytel, from=smith at ipmvs.com, size=23, PC=All
modems presently in use
Jul 19 10:35:00 nagios sendpage[3887]: skytel/q112178730003887000:
state=Queued, to=smith_skytel, from=smith at ipmvs.com(localhost), size=23

The directory /var/lock/LCK was not there so I created it.  I assigned group
and user ownership to uucp and assigned permissions similar to the other
lock directories.  but I still get the errors above.  From what I can find
it sounds like this locking technique may be outdated.  Is anyone else using
sendpage?  Did you run into this problem, did you get around it?

I used minicom to confirm my modem is on ttyS0 and I have created a symbolic
link to /dev/modem.

Any help or useful pointers would be much appreciated.

-Nate