🚀 go-pugleaf

  Some time ago, I posted a question about a problem with rmail for
epoch 4.2 installation on a HP720 running HP-UX 9.01.    Thanks to
Gary Beckmann (gary@poseidon.dfci.harvard.edu) whose example leads to
a work around of the problem.   But neither of us can figure out a
real solution.   So I would like to report this and see if we can
understand the problem better.   

   The problem was whenever I use rmail, it gives me the following
error message   

movemail : Permission denied for lock file--see source file movemail.c

while root can use rmail without any problem.   Sounds like the
standard problem.   After following the comment in etc/movemail.c, I
allow movemail to be setuid and setgid,  

-rwsr-sr-x   1 root     mail       20480 Aug  4 17:03 movemail

It still doesn't work.   Meanwhile, rmail on our emacs 18.59 works.
Copying that binary to epoch/etc/movemal still gives the same error
message.   But following Gary's example, making /usr/mail writable by
the world  

  drwxrwxrwx   2 bin      mail        1024 Aug 24 14:51 /usr/mail

fixes the problem.   This is really just a work around.   We still don't
know how to fix it correctly.   So I call upon NetWidsom to help solve
the mystery.    Any thought?



-- 
Guan-Hsong Hsu                   Email: ghsu@unstable.nswc.navy.mil
Nonlinear Dynamics Group                (301)394-5289, 394-5290
Mathematics and Computations Branch (R44)
NSWC DD/WO, Silver Spring, MD 20903-5640