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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: _xlk: permission denied
Date: 28 Mar 96 09:10:58 GMT
Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
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Message-ID: <hm.828004258@hcswork.hcs.de>
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In <31585450.4654@awinc.com> Paul Archard <paul@awinc.com> writes:
>This message appears in my root mail every time I try to execute
>anything using root's crontab - I have no clue what it means or
>why I'm getting it. Could someone please enlighten me????
You are using Microemacs compiled with locking support and you are trying
to edit a file in a directory in which Microemacs is not allowed to create
a directory named _xlk.
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Hamburg, Europe
"If you can read usenet you can read the FM" (nigel@theplanet.net)