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Started by Jeffrey Scott Traigle
Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:08
Problem creating lock file
Author: Jeffrey Scott Traigle
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:08
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?
Re: Problem creating lock file
Author: 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
Re: Problem creating lock file
Author: Jeffrey Scott Traigle
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:23
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.
Re: Problem creating lock file
Author: Nigel Metheringham
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:17
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:17
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In <1k29p5INNrdh@dsinc.dsi.com> syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) writes: >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? True MIPs machines cannot do gid swapping, and I think E&S machines will be the same. You need to change the $d_savegrpmboxid answer in COnfigure to be $undef Nigel. -- # Nigel Metheringham -- (NeXT) EMail: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk # # System Administrator, Electronics Dept, University of York # # York YO1 5DD. Phone: +44 904 432374, Fax: +44 904 432335 #
Re: Problem creating lock file
Author: Nadeau Jean-Claude
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:41
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:41
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In article <1k26feINN18b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> 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/". > I had the same problem on a HP/Apollo running BSD4.3. I just change the "setgid" calls to "setegid" calls and it worked fine. This function change only the effective GID and not both of them. BTW, the easy way to do that is to #define setgid setegid in the master include file (config.h if I remember). -- Jean-Claude Nadeau, ing. <nadeau@ERE.UMontreal.CA> Services informatiques Tel. (514) 343-6111,ext 5234 Universite de Montreal Fax (514) 343-2155
Re: Problem creating lock file
Author: Christian Riede
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:30
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:30
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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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