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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!fox!yzalkow From: yzalkow@fox.ee.vt.edu (Yuval Zalkow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 22 May 1995 05:07:02 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3pp65m$8os@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <D82tBw.Fzs@ct.covia.com> <D89LGF.93M@luva.lb.bawue.de> <3pi6di$r4m@helios.cto.us.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: fox.ee.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Witek Świerzy (swierzy@usctoux1.cto.us.edu.pl) wrote: : 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 I made Elm 2.4 PL24 for FreeBSD using only FLOCK style locking. I didn't use either the FNCTL or Dot-style-locking. My permisions on my /var/mail directory are 755. Also, I DID NOT turn on the setgid or setuid, not sure which it is off the top of head at the end of the Configure script. I said NO to that. My Elm works fine, I haven't done too much testing against multiple file access though, (I did try it once,) but I'm not sure how tight the controls are. But then how many times do you try to open multiple mailers...if you have a real answer to that, don't tell me!! Chris Inacio --------------------- cinacio@vt.edu