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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pipex!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak!brian From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 - lock problem: Date: 27 Dec 93 12:10:13 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <BRIAN.93Dec27121013@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <16DEC93.15190902@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk In-reply-to: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in's message of Thu, 16 Dec 1993 15:19:09 GMT In article <16DEC93.15190902@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in writes: When i play rogue on my machine i get the message : cannot lock score file. So also hack gives me : cannot link safelock to perm So also elm cannot lock the mail file. So also.. and so on.. what is this problem? why? and how do i solve it? thanks bhiksha I believe all of these locks want a directory /var/spool/lock. Is there one there ? Brian. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>