From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 09:45:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA26133 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 09:45:29 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA26046 ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 09:44:02 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id SAA18370 ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 18:42:04 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id SAA28260 ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 18:42:03 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.1/keltia-uucp-2.6) id SAA07475; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 18:28:45 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199511141728.SAA07475@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: elm problem :) To: bmk@dtr.com Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 18:28:45 +0100 (MET) Cc: geoff@ginsu.com, bsd@ee.petra.ac.id, questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511132326.PAA07428@dtr.com> from "bmk@dtr.com" at Nov 13, 95 03:26:12 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1327 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that bmk@dtr.com said: > have existed, I don't know). I've always had to use flock style locking > - fcntl always seemed to cause the symptoms the original complaint > described. I used to compile Elm setgid mail with all three types of lock till Rod said that without the setgid and with both the 755 permissions on /var/mail and fcntl locking it was working beatifully. It runs like that since. Weird. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Nov 12 16:47:05 MET 1995