movemail cannot lock file

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3 total messages Started by Guan-Hsing Hsu Tue, 10 Aug 1993 16:38

#805

Author: 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

Re: movemail cannot lock file

#807

Author: Guan-Hsing Hsu
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 21:42

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In an earlier arictle, I wrote :

>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

... text deleted

I just tried to use rmail from epoch when I login as root.   And it
worked.  So it really seems like a problem that with setting the
permission of movemail.   What am I doing wrong?   Any suggestion is
appriciated!   By the way, I am running HP UX 9.01 on an HP 720.





-- 
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

Re: movemail cannot lock file

#810

Author: Hamish Macdonald
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 14:22

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>>>>> On 10 Aug 1993 11:38:24 EST,
>>>>> In message <ghsu.745000704@unstable>,
>>>>> ghsu@unstable.nswc.navy.mil (Guan-Hsing Hsu) wrote:

Guan-Hsing> I have recently compiled Epoch 4.2 to run on a HP 720 and
Guan-Hsing> it runs very well except for movemail.  I cannot read mail
Guan-Hsing> with Epoch and I checked the source movemail.c, and I
Guan-Hsing> quote

This is what I use for movemail on hpux:

# This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before this line,
# then unpack it by saving it in a file and typing "sh file".
#
# Wrapped by Hamish Macdonald <hamish@bmerh166> on Wed Aug 11 10:22:16 1993
#
# This archive contains:
#	/bnr/contrib/lemacs/etc/movemail	
#

LANG=""; export LANG
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH; export PATH

echo x - movemail
cat >movemail <<'@EOF'
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$#" != 2 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 infile outfile" 1>&2
    exit 1
fi
umask 077
if [ -r $1 ]; then
    /bin/rm -f $2
    touch $2
    yes "s $2" | mail -r -f $1 > /dev/null
    stat=$?
    if [ $stat = 0 ]; then
        /bin/rm -f $1
        exit 0
    else
        exit $stat
    fi
else
    echo "$0:  File $1 is not readable" 1>&2
    exit 1
fi
@EOF

chmod 755 movemail

exit 0

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