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#! rnews 1902 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.dfn.de!nntp.fh-augsburg.de!mubo.abg.sub.org!rabbit.augusta.de!usenet From: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Waiting to read mailbox... Date: 29 Jan 1996 22:08:04 GMT Organization: private site running FreeBSD. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4ejgg4$fs9@rabbit.augusta.de> References: <mitch4DLG3Fu.7A2@netcom.com> <4e0kdp$c1u@news.bu.edu> Reply-To: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.augusta.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.elm:18562 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13431 In article <4e0kdp$c1u@news.bu.edu>, mi@ALDAN.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) writes: > =I just accepted all of the defaults when I ran Config. > = > =Now, when I run elm not as root, it says > =Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received, then > =it bombs. > > Check the existence and permissions on other mailboxes. Wait for > someone to tell you how to unlock the locked files (wait, are > there any /var/mail/.<user>.lock files? Remove them, carefully). two things: chmod 1777 /var/mail and/or while compiling elm there is a question about lock-style (or so). There are tree modes (by default all are set to yes) you must answer the second or third to no. Than it will work .. -- Gruß, Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Berge von unten, Kirchen von außen und Kneipen von innen ... shanee@rabbit.augusta.de Zirbelnußtown -------------------------------------------------------------------------