From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 27 21:08:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA08380 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA08374 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06148; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:08:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:08:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Ianny Brankov cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't run FTPMail 1.23 In-Reply-To: <33DB49DF.7A64@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Ianny Brankov wrote: > Hi, > I tried to start ftpmail-1.23 program. > It said 'can't lock xxxx file'. > I saw it uses a function FLOCK. (I'm not sure about the func name) > May be I have to change some kernel configuration option to > allow this function ot work. flock() is the system advisory file lock system (see flock(2)). If a lock attempt is failing, make sure the given file & directory exists and is readable. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo