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From: Oliver Soell <oliver@infohwy.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm problems
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:26:05 -0600
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To: Robert Leland <leland@cais3.cais.com>
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>Elm was probably compiled with SYSV file locking. I noticed that on a
>BSDI machine, (NetBSD also), that root doesn't experience the problem
>but  a lowely user does. Soultion would to rebuild elm, when being
>configured elm will ask you do you want to use three different types
>of locking answer yes to the first two, (uucp and flock() ??) and no
>to the third type SYSV locking whatever that is :-)!


The thing is that I just installed the elm that was included on the
2.0 CD in /usr/contrib.. I doubt they'd let that go through with an
error like that, and I'm sure others are using it just fine..

We shall see.

-o