[Cialug] uucp-style lock files?

[Nathan C. Smith]

If you can live with phones more power to you.

One time on SNL there was a skit I liked - a woman talking on the phone and
the husband kept asking questions and asking her to tell the caller things.
He was basically having a conversation through her.  The skit ended with a
public serive announcement for phone-illiterate people.  If I'm not one
already, it is what I aspire to be.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Bailey, Jonathan C <bailj0 at bp.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 19 11:04:53 2005
Subject: RE: [Cialug] uucp-style lock files?


Ok. You won on that one. Although for me, a pager isn'g cheap due to the
fact that its another device. Ah well, now if I could only get my
cellphone unstuck from my head.



Jon 

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Nathan C. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:02 AM
To: 'cialug at cialug.org'
Subject: Re: [Cialug] uucp-style lock files?



Does alphanumeric paging.  I need an out-of-band warning system for the
hvac in the computer room.  When it gets too hot the e-mail system shuts
down first.  Pagers are tiny compared to most phones and cheap to
operate too.
They also run for a long time on a charge.  

Besides all that, I really hate phones, too linear, lousy user interface
and people can call you on them.  Eew.

-Nate


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-----Original Message-----
From: Bailey, Jonathan C <bailj0 at bp.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 19 10:45:25 2005
Subject: RE: [Cialug] uucp-style lock files?


Any reason you're using sendpage? I'd think its only for numeric paging.
Even that is a bit outdated. What geek doesn't carry an alphanumeric
pager or cellphone? That's what I use for alerts...


Jon 

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Nathan C. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:42 AM
To: 'cialug at cialug.org'
Subject: [Cialug] uucp-style lock files?



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

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