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- From: ce095@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Traigle)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Problem creating lock file
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:08:46 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1k26feINN18b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: ce095@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Traigle)
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- I'm attempting to get elm running on an Evans & Sutherland machine.
- It is essentially a MIPS machine and OS frolm what I can gather.
- I finally managed to get elm compiled, but when I try to run it,
- I get the following message:
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- Can't create lock file! Need write permission in "/usr/mail/".
-
- The mail directory has the following permissions:
-
- drwxrwxr-x bin mail /usr/mail
-
- and I ran Configure to be setgid. (In fact, I tried running it as
- non-setgid as well trying to figure out what was wrong.) The only
- other thing that I could think of to try was only using one of flock
- or fcntrl locking, but that didn't help either. Anybody get it running
- on one of these machines?
-
- There was one thing that happened during Configure that I hadn't seen
- while running on Suns and SGIs. Immediately after Configure looks for
- tzname() and tzname_(), I got the following message:
-
- Configure: 262 Memory fault - core dumped
-
- Configure continued after this message and everything ran apparently
- normally. Is this something that is expected and could it have something
- to do with my locking problems?
-