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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Compiling Elm 2.4 for 2.1R
Date: 24 Mar 1996 23:45:03 GMT
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oneill@jupiter.cs.uml.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill) writes:
> 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?

Do you also have ``dot-file locking'' enabled?  Kill'em.  You don't
need it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)