Re: Problem creating lock file

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From: Jeffrey Scott Traigle
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:23

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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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From: ce095@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Traigle)
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Subject: Re: Problem creating lock file
Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:23:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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