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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!plaster.csdc.toshiba.com.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!news.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!ulowell.uml.edu!jupiter.cs.uml.edu!oneill From: oneill@jupiter.cs.uml.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Compiling Elm 2.4 for 2.1R Date: 22 Mar 1996 20:50:51 GMT Organization: UMass-Lowell Computer Science Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4iv3rb$ort@ulowell.uml.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jupiter.cs.uml.edu I've got Elm 2.4 with the patches from ports-2.1. I can build it, but whenever I run it non-root, all I get is "Waiting" message, indicating that the mail file is locked, when it isn't. I tried both flock and fcntl locking, and both had the same effect...any suggestions? Elm is installed setgid bin... ====================================================================== Brian O'Neill - Director of Computing, Computer Science (508) 934-3645 University of Massachusetts at Lowell oneill@cs.uml.edu "If a disk crashes in the machine room, and the Manager isn't there to hear it, do the users make a sound?" - Me <*>