🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1k4338INN9fl@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, Jeffrey Scott Traigle writes:

> 
> 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.

Check if /usr is NFS-mounted with the nosuid-flag (grep usr /etc/fstab)

Gruss, Christian

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