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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 - lock problem:
Date: 27 Dec 93 12:10:13
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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Message-ID: <BRIAN.93Dec27121013@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
References: <16DEC93.15190902@tifrvax.tifr.res.in>
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In-reply-to: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in's message of Thu, 16 Dec 1993 15:19:09 GMT

In article <16DEC93.15190902@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in writes:


   When i play rogue on my machine i get the message : cannot lock  score file.
   So also hack gives me  : cannot link safelock to perm
   So also elm cannot lock the mail file.
   So also.. and so on..
   what is this problem?
   why?
   and how do i solve it?

   thanks
   bhiksha

I believe all of these locks want a directory /var/spool/lock.  Is there one
there ?

Brian.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>