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- From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Problem running elm
- Message-ID: <1hadi5INN54a@dsinc.dsi.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:09:57 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.155950.14147@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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- ramakris@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Balaji Ramakrishnan) writes:
- >I compiled elm succesfully on a RS6000. BUt when I tried running it I got
- >the message "Can't open lock file need write permission on /usr/spool/mail"
-
- >I am not the super user and my permissions on my mail file are set to
-
- >-rw-rw----
-
- >I am not sure whetherI can be granted write permission on this file or not.
- >I was just wondering whether there is any other way to fix this.
-
- The permissions on you mail file aren't relevant, the permissions on the
- mail spool directory are. If the mail spool is
-
- drwxrwsrwt (3777) then Elm does not need to be setgid and anyone can install it.
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- If the directory is
-
- drwxrwxr-x (775) then Elm must be installed setgid to the same group as
- the group of the mail spool directory (usually mail). This requires
- sysadmin privs.
-
- In addition, Elm must be configured appropriately for each case.
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL17
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
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