megadots with dosemu

[Kerry Hoath]

I presume dosemu wants to lock the ports it wants to use,
but if something else is using the port it will allready have a file
in /var/lock for that port called
lck.devicename.
On my system, /var/lock is a sticky directory
1777 and all lock files are ascii that is the process
id of the process using the device goes in
/var/lock/lck.device
I may try dosemu and let you know how I go.

Regards, Kerry.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:34:28PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Solved the problem of megadots with dosemu. I needed to allot some kilobytes for
> dpmi. It works, though asap was being a bit flaky.
> At least this problem is clearly addressed in the dosemu howto!
> the only drawback now is that it is apparently definitely a security no-no to
> run dosemu as root with dpmi working, so I need to solve the /var/lock problem,
> as does Greg just because he can't even run it as root.
> 
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