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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!xlink100!ka.sub.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!zrzr0111 From: zrzr0111@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Kurt Jaeger aka PI) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 8 May 1995 18:41:11 GMT Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3olok7$kto@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <D82tBw.Fzs@ct.covia.com> <D89LGF.93M@luva.lb.bawue.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de In article <D89LGF.93M@luva.lb.bawue.de>, Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de> wrote: >>I just compiled elm 2.4 PL24 under FreeBSD 2.0. For some nonobvious >>reason, it cannot seem to write the lock file into the mail >>directory (/var/mail). Permissions are as follows: >> >>/var/mail is >> >> drwxrwxr-x 2 bin bin > >Set it to 1777 Compile and configure Your elm properly and set /var/mail to 755. This works using smail-3.1.29 as MTA... -- PI at the User Help Desk Comp.Center U of Stuttgart, FRG 25 years to go ! EMail: pi@rus.uni-stuttgart.de fon ++49 711 685-4828 (aka Kurt Jaeger)