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Article #805movemail cannot lock file
From: Guan-Hsing Hsu
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 16:38
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 16:38
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Hi, Dear Epocher, I have recently compiled Epoch 4.2 to run on a HP 720 and it runs very well except for movemail. I cannot read mail with Epoch and I checked the source movemail.c, and I quote So, if your system uses lock files rather than flock, then the only way you can get proper operation is to enable movemail to write lockfiles there. This means you must either give that directory access modes that permit everyone to write lockfiles in it, or you must make movemail a setuid or setgid program. */ Well, so I make movemail both setuid and setgid program -rwsrwsr-x 1 root mail 20480 Aug 4 17:03 movemail I still cannot receive mail. Meanwhile, my existing movemail in the old emacs-18.59 can read mail without problem. It is usless even if I rename the movemail in epoch and reolace it with the one from emacs (I actually use a symbolic link). Can anybody give me a hint? Many thanks in advance. -- Guan-Hsong Hsu Email: ghsu@nswc-wo.navy.mil Nonlinear Dynamics Group (301)394-5289, 394-5290 Mathematics and Computations Branch (R44) NSWC DD/WO, Silver Spring, MD 20903-5640
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,b87e7ee78a8dd704,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-08-10 12:07:51 PST Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!math.fu-berlin.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uknet!pipex!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!relay!unstable!ghsu From: ghsu@unstable.nswc.navy.mil (Guan-Hsing Hsu) Subject: movemail cannot lock file Message-ID: <ghsu.745000704@unstable> Sender: news@relay.nswc.navy.mil Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 16:38:24 GMT Lines: 27