Bug 195573

You must be in uucp group to do "set line /dev/ttyS0"
see #166155

Yeah... you're talking about FC4, and I'm talking about FC5.

# uname -r
2.6.16-1.2122_FC5
# ls -l /usr/bin/kermit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2534712 Feb 10 23:28 /usr/bin/kermit
# rpm -q ckermit
ckermit-8.0.211-4.2.1
#

Hmmm...  I note that "show communications" returns the wrong result, as well:

(/home/philipp/) C-Kermit>show commun

Communications Parameters:
 Line: /dev/ttyS0, speed: 9600, mode: local, modem: none
 Parity: none, stop-bits: 1 (8N1)
 Duplex: full, flow: xon/xoff, handshake: none
 Carrier-watch: off, close-on-disconnect: off
 Lockfile: /etc/locks/LCK..ttyS0
 Terminal bytesize: 8, escape character: 28 (^\)

 Carrier Detect      (CD):  Off
 Dataset Ready       (DSR): Off
 Clear To Send       (CTS): Off
 Ring Indicator      (RI):  Off
 Data Terminal Ready (DTR): On
 Request To Send     (RTS): On

Type SHOW DIAL to see DIAL-related items.
Type SHOW MODEM to see modem-related items.

(/home/philipp/) C-Kermit>

Does the problem persist even if you are in uucp group?
Because it works for me:
# usermod -G uucp -a someuser
# su - someuser
$ ckermit
C-Kermit> set line /dev/ttyS0

There is same ckermit in FC-{4,5} and devel.
%changelog
* Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating> - 8.0.211-4.2.1
- bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)

* Tue Feb 07 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating> - 8.0.211-4.2
- rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes

* Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating>
- rebuilt

* Tue Nov  8 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz> 8.0.211-4
- rebuilt with new openssl

* Wed Aug 31 2005 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> 8.0.211-3
- use baudboy.h to create per-device lock(s) in /var/lock (#166155)

Well, in FC5 the group ownership of kermit is root, not uucp.  So I changed
that, and made the binary setgid().

That fixed not being able to do the "set line ...".

Arguably, these modes should be the default in the FC5 install.

In any case, it still remains that "show comm" displays the wrong lock path.

This is a bug and should be re-opened. Reproducable as root. I even added uucp
group membership just for giggles.

root@localhost~# gpasswd -a root uucp
root@localhost~# kermit
C-Kermit 8.0.211, 10 Apr 2004, for Red Hat Linux 9.0
 Copyright (C) 1985, 2004,
  Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/root/) C-Kermit>show comm

Communications Parameters:
 Line: /dev/tty, speed: unknown, mode: remote, modem: generic
 Parity: none, duplex: full, flow: none, handshake: none
 Carrier-watch: auto, close-on-disconnect: off
 Lockfile directory: (none)
 Typical port device name: /dev/ttyS0

Modem signals unavailable

Type SHOW DIAL to see DIAL-related items.
Type SHOW MODEM to see modem-related items.

(/root/) C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttyS0
Sorry, write access to UUCP lockfile directory denied.

Peter, the "ckermit" that you ran in your example above does not exist in FC5.

I have identified the true source of this bug. The ckermit package has a missing
dep on the lockdev package.

root@localhost~# kermit
C-Kermit 8.0.211, 10 Apr 2004, for Red Hat Linux 9.0
 Copyright (C) 1985, 2004,
  Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/root/) C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttyS0
Sorry, write access to UUCP lockfile directory denied.

(/root/) C-Kermit>exit     
root@localhost~# yum -d0 -y install lockdev
root@localhost~# kermit
C-Kermit 8.0.211, 10 Apr 2004, for Red Hat Linux 9.0
 Copyright (C) 1985, 2004,
  Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/root/) C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttyS0
(/root/) C-Kermit>!ls /var/lock
dmraid  iptraf  LCK.004.064  LCK...31877  LCK..ttyS0  lvm  subsys
(/root/) C-Kermit>quit 
Closing /dev/ttyS0...OK

So I suppose the best solution is to add this to ckermit.spec:

Requires: lockdev >= 1.0.1-8

Why this wasn't caught by the rpm dep checker is a mystery left to the @redhat
experts.

Requires: lockdev is fixed in ckermit-8.0.211-5.fc{5,6}