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- From: briand@jarthur.claremont.edu (Brian Diggs)
- Subject: relative pathnames for temporary directory
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.044544.7973@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:45:44 GMT
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- I am attempting to get elm working on our group of sun workstations. We
- already have elm installed on our central machine (a sequent symmetry
- running dynix) and currently all mail is handled through that machine. I
- was wanting to get elm on the sun machines so that mail could be read from
- machines other than the central one.
-
- However, the problem I have run into is the location of the temporary
- directory for the different machines. Normally we use /tmp/elm, however
- when reading the incoming mail folder (SPOOL), the temporary mailbox
- (mbox.username) is put in /tmp/elm. Elm will allow this mailbox to be
- accessed simultaniously from two different machines because the temporary
- box is located on two entirely different machines. (The users home
- directory, however, is NFS mounted from the central machines to the
- workstations.) After one of the sessions is quit and the mailbox
- overwritten, the other panics and exits when attempting to see if new mail
- has arrived.
-
- The solution I've been working on is to make the individual's own directory
- the temporary directory, or possibly their .elm directory. However, I have
- not figured out how to specify a pathname relative to the home directory.
- (~/ does not seem to work, and gives a message that it cannot create the
- temporary mailbox, even if the home directory is world writable.) Any
- suggestions of how to do this would be appreciated.
-
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- Brian Diggs briand@jarthur.claremont.edu
- Computer Science Student Staff, Harvey Mudd College
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