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From: lawrence@combdyn.com (Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen)
Subject: Re: Compiling Elm 2.4 for 2.1R
Message-ID: <1996Mar27.215636.22528@combdyn.com>
Organization: Combustion Dynamics Ltd.
References: <4iv3rb$ort@ulowell.uml.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:56:36 GMT
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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
for my FreeBSD system yet.
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