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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!cae!cae!not-for-mail
- From: vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Timed out on locking mailbox?
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 19:18:23 -0500
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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- Message-ID: <1i5bcfINNmq1@cae.cad.gatech.edu>
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- I build elm 2.4 pl17 on a Sparc II running SunOS 4.1.2. It runs okay on this
- machine. I have 3 Sparc I's that mount /var/spool/mail from the Sparc II,
- and when I try to run the same copy of elm on them, it craps out on
- the locking thing:
-
- Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #6
- Giving up after 7 iterations.
- Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes.
- Timed out on locking mailbox. Leaving program.
-
- I assumed 2 sets of things that are likely problems:
- 1)That SunOS can do setgid() correctly.
- 2)That all 3 forms of locking were appropriate.
-
- Any clues?
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