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movemail cannot lock file

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From: Guan-Hsing Hsu
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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From: ghsu@unstable.nswc.navy.mil (Guan-Hsing Hsu)
Subject: movemail cannot lock file
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 16:38:24 GMT
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