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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!uunet!in1.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!peer-news.britain.eu.net!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!dcs.ed.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: st@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) Subject: Re: problems compiling elm X-Nntp-Posting-Host: amber.epcc.ed.ac.uk Message-ID: <DnDwEp.CCv.0.staffin.dcs.ed.ac.uk@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK. X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] References: <4gkh1g$5cn@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> <DnDrBv.921@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:06:24 GMT Lines: 25 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2345 comp.unix.amiga:12634 In article <DnDrBv.921@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>, Joern Clausen (joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE) wrote: > 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. ISTR that either flock or fcntl on their own will work, but selecting both will result in the above behaviour. -- Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, <s.telford@ed.ac.uk> University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.(+44 131 650 5978) "Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" "What's the difference?" (Snow Crash)