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- From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Problem creating lock file
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:05:09 -0500
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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- ce095@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Traigle) writes:
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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/".
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- >The mail directory has the following permissions:
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- >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?
-
- You must be root to install Elm, so that elm gets installed setgid
- and set to group mail. Check the permissions on Elm.
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL20
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
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