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From: zrzr0111@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Kurt Jaeger aka PI)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 8 May 1995 18:41:11 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
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References: <D82tBw.Fzs@ct.covia.com> <D89LGF.93M@luva.lb.bawue.de>
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In article <D89LGF.93M@luva.lb.bawue.de>,
Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de> wrote:
>>I just compiled elm 2.4 PL24 under FreeBSD 2.0.  For some nonobvious
>>reason, it cannot seem to write the lock file into the mail
>>directory (/var/mail).   Permissions are as follows:
>>
>>/var/mail is
>>
>>	 drwxrwxr-x 2 bin bin 
>
>Set it to 1777

Compile and configure Your elm properly and set /var/mail to 755.

This works using smail-3.1.29 as MTA...

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