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Description of problem:
/var/lock is used by uucp, among others, to write lock files into.
Specifically, uucico (of uucp), will write temp PID files into
/var/lock. uucico runs suid/sgid uucp.uucp - /var/lock needs to
be group owned uucp, otherwise uucp (and other SGID applications which
should also be group uucp owned) which need to create/check tmp PID
files will fail.


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ls -l /var | grep lock
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         1024 Jul 24 20:52
lock


Expected Results:  drwxrwxr-x    6 root     uucp         4096 Jul 24 20:45
lock

    ^^^                  ^^^^

Additional info:

as a reference, check RH7.1 and all earlier releases.