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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!mimuw.edu.pl!news.nask.org.pl!news.cto.us.edu.pl!news From: swierzy@usctoux1.cto.us.edu.pl (Witek Świerzy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD 2.0 Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 12:25:24 GMT Organization: Uniwersytet Śląski Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3pi6di$r4m@helios.cto.us.edu.pl> References: <D82tBw.Fzs@ct.covia.com> <D89LGF.93M@luva.lb.bawue.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gate.math2.us.edu.pl X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.46 migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich) wrote: >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 Or recompile Elm with dot - style - locking, without using flock() system function. It helped me. Witek Swierzy swierzy@tc3.ich.us.edu.pl