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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!winternet.com!news 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 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4e583s$ara@blackice.winternet.com> References: <4e34av$fin@tzlink.j51.com> <4e5327$1co@news.calweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: robigo.winternet.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.2 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