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Cheryl,

I am running debian 3.0 (woody), and I just checked the permissions on
/var/lock here:

drwxrwxrwt    3 root     root         1024 Mar 14 11:56 /var/lock

To get that permission, type, as root,

chmod 1777 /var/lock

William