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- From: nadeau@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Nadeau Jean-Claude)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: cann't write to /usr/spool/mail !!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.211556.15715@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:15:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.200722.6611@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec22.200722.6611@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> mikeg@asylum.tmc.edu (Michael Grabenstein) writes:
- > I had this error (see subject) for all of version 2.4.
- >and it finnally went away. What I did was this: In running the
- >Configure program It would ask:
- >"Is elm going to be run as a setgid program? [y]"
- > Since I was chmod'ing the program to 2755 I answered yes.
- >(Syd - was I wrong?)
- > What got rid of the infamous "can't write to /usr/spool/mail"
- >was just in answering no to that question. (why?)
- > This is my system: Apollo domain series 4000 running
- >domain/OS 10.3 (and others running 10.4)
- >
- With BSD I guest! I had the same problem here and I found
- a quick (and durty???) way to "repair" it. Elm must use
- the "setegid" function instead of "setgid". The last one
- change the real and the effective GID and after changing
- to the original GID of the user, the program cannot return
- to the mail group GID.
-
- So I've just:
-
- #define setgid setegid
-
- in "config.h" and re-install Elm. It worked just fine
- with Elm 2.4PL17.
-
- Merry Xmas & Happy new year to all Elm fans
- (and the others ;-).
-
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