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- From: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Problem creating lock file
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.111707.8948@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:17:07 GMT
- References: <1k26feINN18b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1k29p5INNrdh@dsinc.dsi.com>
- Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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- In <1k29p5INNrdh@dsinc.dsi.com> syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) writes:
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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?
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- True MIPs machines cannot do gid swapping, and I think E&S machines
- will be the same. You need to change the $d_savegrpmboxid answer in
- COnfigure to be $undef
-
- Nigel.
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