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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!eff!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!nntp.hk.super.net!tst.hk.super.net!hkucs92.air.org!hkucs92.air.org!not-for-mail From: cklo@hkucs92.air.org (Chris Lo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Elm thinks files are locked Date: 6 Aug 1995 23:42:44 +0800 Organization: Association for Internet Resources Lines: 22 Message-ID: <402ntk$1kk@hkucs92.air.org> References: <3vt1hl$7mj@blackice.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hkucs92.air.org X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] John Boggs (robigo@winternet.com) wrote: : I've compiled Elm, and it compiled cleanly (2.4, PL22; : FreeBSD-2.0.5-950622-SNAP). When I run Elm now it tells me that it's : waiting for my mailbox to stop being used by another program. : : When I had this problem before (different elm, earlier FreeBSD), I : just compiled Elm with either just fctl or just flock locking. That's : what I did this time (I tried both just fctl and just flock), but it : won't work. I am using dot-locking. : : I hope I'm just missing something easy. I've gotten Elm to work with : FreeBSD before, but this time I'm stumped. : You may want to have /var/mail writable by group mail...I do NOT, however, know if this causes any problem about security. -- Chris Lo A___A chris@air.org ____ / o o \ cklo@HK.Super.Net _/~____ =^= / Chris.Lo@p89.f487.n700.z6.fidonet.org <______>__m_m_>