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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD Date: 29 Jun 1996 17:34:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4r3peo$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jmanley-2906960000510001@fw42.metronet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.elm:19630 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22490 jmanley@metronet.com (Jim Manley) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I have installed elm 2.4 pl 24 on an intel box running FreeBSD 2.1. > > When I run the command "elm", the program responds as follows: > > "Waiting to read mailbox wile mail is being recieved: attempt #" You've compile elm with the wrong locking mechanism. Select either flock or fcntl, but *don't* select dot-file locking. (And don't configure it to run setgid, for that matter.) -- 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. ;-)