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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 30 May 1995 17:09:33 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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>>>/var/mail is
>>>
>>> drwxrwxr-x 2 bin bin
>
>>Set it to 1777
>
>Or recompile Elm with dot - style - locking, without using flock()
>system function. It helped me.
Are you sure you didn't reverse this sentence? Dot-style-locking
requires write access to the directory. (Which is considered a
security hole for a certain race condition, hence dot-style-locking is
deprecated unless you really need it [e.g. for a NFS-mounted spool
directory] and don't care for the security issues.)
Either flock() or fcntl() locking should work fine with the default
permissions. I'm using it all the time this way.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)