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- From: ce095@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Traigle)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Problem creating lock file
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:23:20 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: ce095@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Traigle)
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- In a previous article, syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) says:
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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/".
- >
- >>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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- I was root when I installed it. The permissions on Elm are
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- -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 685924 Jan 26 14:22 elm
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- which looks right for a setgid program.
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