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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!xlink100!ka.sub.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.belwue.de!delos.stgt.sub.org!nadia.s.bawue.de!luva!migieger From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich) Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD 2.0 Organization: private FreeBSD site Message-ID: <D89LGF.93M@luva.lb.bawue.de> References: <D82tBw.Fzs@ct.covia.com> Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 14:55:27 GMT Lines: 14 In article <D82tBw.Fzs@ct.covia.com>, Tundra Tim Daneliuk <tundra@ct.covia.com> 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 -- Michael Giegerich, E-Mail: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de, Voice: +49 7144 39337