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From: kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr)
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Stupid problem with ELM
References: <738477181wkn6333@edmund> <3529@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Organization: GNUSYS
Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 08:02:04 GMT
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Andreas Schulz (ats@bsd386.first.gmd.de) wrote:
: In article <738477181wkn6333@edmund> gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) writes:
: >
: >Could somebody explain how to get ELM2.4-PL21 working under
: >NetBSD?? I ran configure, which bombed at 1688 in the CPP options
: >section. So I commented that out since I didn't really need any
: >and configure ran ok. lib/opt_utils.c had a tolower() and toupper()
: >that conflicted with the gcc clib, but did the same thing, so I
: >deleted the one in opt_utils.c.
: >Commenting out POSIX_SIGNALS (sp?) and HASPROCSIGMASK (sp?) allowed
: >me to compile it ok.
: >It seems to work, reads mail fine, says it's sending it, but all the
: >messages it sends are empty. I ran it with "-D 5" and it looks like
: >it is getting an errno=2 on a "stat" of the vi tmp file "/tmp.snd.xxx"
: >but tmp is 777 and elm is setgid!
: >
: The real problem is "/bin/sh", try to get the patches for it and install
: it and all will be running. They are posted a while ago in the
: comp.os.386bsd.bugs group.
: You can search for them in the newsgroup archives ( one in australia
: and one in england, sorry don't remember the names in the moment ).
: Or you can get the patched source from "bsd386.first.gmd.de", login "guest",
: password "guest" and fetch the new source from "/usr/src/bin/sh".
: Thanks again Jim Wilson for this patch, it's not in the patchkit yet.
or use bash as sh ...
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