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Article #3541Re: Problem creating lock file
From: Syd Weinstein
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:05
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:05
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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. -- ======================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL20 Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994 syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!hela.iti.org!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!dsinc!not-for-mail From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Problem creating lock file Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:05:09 -0500 Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA Lines: 27 Message-ID: <1k29p5INNrdh@dsinc.dsi.com> References: <1k26feINN18b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: dsinc.dsi.com