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From: jdb@robigo.winternet.com (John D. Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Elm does not like me :(
Date: 24 Jan 1996 12:19:08 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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In article <4e5327$1co@news.calweb.com>,
cslye@infosite.com (Cameron Slye) writes:
>Brian Springstead (bspring@j51.com) wrote:
>: Trying to read mailbox while receiving mail #x where x is a number of
>: tries.
>
>chmod 7111 (I belive) on /var/spool/mail should fix that
When I compiled elm (before I started using VM) I found that this
error referred to a locking problem. I switched it to use only flock,
and things were just dandy from that point on.
--
John D. Boggs \ The great thing about human language is
jdb@robigo.winternet.com \ that it prevents us from sticking to
\ the matter at hand. -Lewis Thomas