Strange UUCP PRoblem (SGI's HDB)

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From: C. Harald Koch
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:18

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I'm getting strange PERMISSION DENIED errors when a remote site tries to
send files to us, when the target directories do not exist. The error only
occurs sometimes (i.e. even if the dirs don't exist, they usually get
created).

Here's the output from a uucico -x5 that shows the problem:


[ .... ]

Remote Requested:
uunet.ca!/slow/archive/ftp/oes.orst.edu/pub/mirror/amiga.physik.unizh.ch/amiga/hard/hack/audiodig.lha --> alias!~/ftp/oes.orst.edu/pub/mirror/amiga.physik.unizh.ch/amiga/hard/hack/audiodig.lha (mailserv)
SLAVE - filename: /usr/spool/uucppublic/ftp/oes.orst.edu/pub/mirror/amiga.physik.unizh.ch/amiga/hard/hack/audiodig.lha
mkdir - /usr
mkdir - /usr/spool
mkdir - /usr/spool/uucppublic
mkdir - /usr/spool/uucppublic/ftp
mkdir - /usr/spool/uucppublic/ftp/oes.orst.edu
mkdir - /usr/spool/uucppublic/ftp/oes.orst.edu/pub
mkdir - /usr/spool/uucppublic/ftp/oes.orst.edu/pub/mirror
mkdir - /usr/spool/uucppublic/ftp/oes.orst.edu/pub/mirror/amiga.physik.unizh.ch
mkdir - /usr/spool/uucppublic/ftp/oes.orst.edu/pub/mirror/amiga.physik.unizh.ch/amiga
mkdir - /usr/spool/uucppublic/ftp/oes.orst.edu/pub/mirror/amiga.physik.unizh.ch/amiga/hard
mkdir - /usr/spool/uucppublic/ftp/oes.orst.edu/pub/mirror/amiga.physik.unizh.ch/amiga/hard/hack
CAN'T SETUID 0
wmesg 'S'N2
Failed: Access Denied

The Permissions entry for the site is:

MACHINE=uunet.ca REQUEST=yes SENDFILES=yes MYNAME=alias \
        READ=/usr/spool/uucppublic:/usr/store/ftp/uunet \
        WRITE=/usr/spool/uucppublic:/usr/store/ftp/uunet \
        COMMANDS=rmail


I can't figure out what's wrong. Has anyone seen this before?

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Subject: Strange UUCP PRoblem (SGI's HDB)
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