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- From: nadeau@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Nadeau Jean-Claude)
- Subject: Re: Problem creating lock file
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.174115.23981@cc.umontreal.ca>
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- Organization: Universite de Montreal
- References: <1k26feINN18b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:41:15 GMT
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- In article <1k26feINN18b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ce095@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Traigle) writes:
- >
- >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:
- >
- >Can't create lock file! Need write permission in "/usr/mail/".
- >
- I had the same problem on a HP/Apollo running BSD4.3. I just
- change the "setgid" calls to "setegid" calls and it worked
- fine. This function change only the effective GID and not
- both of them.
-
- BTW, the easy way to do that is to #define setgid setegid
- in the master include file (config.h if I remember).
-
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