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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Compiling Elm 2.4 for 2.1R Date: 24 Mar 1996 23:45:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4j4mpv$5tu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4iv3rb$ort@ulowell.uml.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 oneill@jupiter.cs.uml.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill) writes: > I've got Elm 2.4 with the patches from ports-2.1. I can build it, but > whenever I run it non-root, all I get is "Waiting" message, indicating that > the mail file is locked, when it isn't. I tried both flock and fcntl > locking, and both had the same effect...any suggestions? Do you also have ``dot-file locking'' enabled? Kill'em. You don't need it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)