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#! rnews 1967 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.tamu.edu!news From: Chris Schmidt <cschmidt@me.pvamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:29:37 -0500 Organization: Prairie View A&M University M.E. Dept. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <31D6C791.4746@me.pvamu.edu> References: <jmanley-2906960000510001@fw42.metronet.com> <4r3peo$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cschmidt.me.pvamu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.elm:19634 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22547 J Wunsch wrote: > > jmanley@metronet.com (Jim Manley) wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > I have installed elm 2.4 pl 24 on an intel box running FreeBSD 2.1. > > > > When I run the command "elm", the program responds as follows: > > > > "Waiting to read mailbox wile mail is being recieved: attempt #" > > You've compile elm with the wrong locking mechanism. Select either > flock or fcntl, but *don't* select dot-file locking. (And don't > configure it to run setgid, for that matter.) Why not use dot-file locking. 100% of the unix machines that I have seen using elm all use dot-file locking. Would he not use it because of the OS he is running or does elm have some kind of problems with dot-locking? If elm is compiled to not run setgid, will it work no matter what? I thought in the Documentation that came with the source code that you really only needed to it to run setgid for security reasons. Is that true, or do I have it all mixed up? Chris > > -- > 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. ;-)