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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.amiga Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-bielefeld.de!dahlie!joern From: joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Joern Clausen) Subject: Re: problems compiling elm Sender: news@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (News Administrator) Message-ID: <DnDrBv.921@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:16:42 GMT References: <4gkh1g$5cn@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> Nntp-Posting-Host: dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.amiga Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2336 comp.unix.amiga:12620 Eka Durmin (eka@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote: : I just compiled elm-2.4p25. It compiled well, but when I try to read my : mail, elm says that my mailfile is still receiving messages... then it waits : 7 seconds and then elm quits. : There is also lock file in /var/mail (/var/mail/eka.lock). : I used to use elm-2.4p23... this older version works well.. but I didn't : compile it myself. : I think that I did something wrong when I have to answer some questions to : the configuration-script before compiling elm-2.4p25. What locking methods have you compiled into elm? I use only dot-locking, neither flock nor fcntl, and elm works fine fore me. -- Joern Clausen "What do you think will be the biggest joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE problem in computing in the 90s?" Universitaet Bielefeld "There are only 17,000 three-letter- Technische Fakultaet acronyms." [Paul Boutin]