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From: obrien@Nuxi.com (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Compiling Elm 2.4 for 2.1R
Date: 28 Mar 1996 02:39:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen (lawrence@combdyn.com) wrote:
: 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?
:
: >Elm is installed setgid bin...
:
: I'm pretty sure elm should be installed setgid mail. At least that's how
: I have it installed on my Interactive UNIX box. Haven't tried building it
The usual followup from Ollivier ROBERT on this topic would be:
Under any version of FreeBSD, one need to have :
- /var/mail 755 root.wheel
- use only fcntl as locking scheme
- configure elm *not* to be setgid mail.
It runs fine like that.
The best way to use Elm is with fcntl. With fcntl you don't have to have
/var/mail 1777 nor using Elm as setgid mail.
203 [14:11] roberto@keltia:~> ll -d /var/mail
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 512 Jul 2 15:35 /var/mail/
205 [14:12] roberto@keltia:~> ll `which elm`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 354385 Jul 17 23:50 /usr/local/bin/elm*
Elm Version and Identification Information:
Elm 2.4ME+ PL3 (25), of January, 1996
(C) Copyright 1988-1992 USENET Community Trust
Based on Elm 2.0, (C) Copyright 1986,1987 Dave Taylor
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Configured Tue Jan 23 22:25:11 MET 1996
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Following mail spool locking protocols will be used:
USE_FCNTL_LOCKING
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-- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)