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- From: chr@senga.ka.sub.org (Christian Riede)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Problem creating lock file
- Message-ID: <QGRms*QY0@senga.ka.sub.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:30:44 GMT
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- In article <1k4338INN9fl@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, Jeffrey Scott Traigle writes:
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- >
- > In a previous article, syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) says:
- >
- > >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/".
- > >
- > >>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?
- > >
- > >You must be root to install Elm, so that elm gets installed setgid
- > >and set to group mail. Check the permissions on Elm.
- >
- > I was root when I installed it. The permissions on Elm are
- >
- > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 685924 Jan 26 14:22 elm
- >
- > which looks right for a setgid program.
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- Check if /usr is NFS-mounted with the nosuid-flag (grep usr /etc/fstab)
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- Gruss, Christian
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