Problem creating lock file

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From: Jeffrey Scott Traigle
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:08

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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:

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?

There was one thing that happened during Configure that I hadn't seen
while running on Suns and SGIs. Immediately after Configure looks for
tzname() and tzname_(), I got the following message:

Configure: 262 Memory fault - core dumped

Configure continued after this message and everything ran apparently
normally. Is this something that is expected and could it have something
to do with my locking problems?

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From: ce095@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Traigle)
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Subject: Problem creating lock file
Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:08:46 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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