From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 25 08:59:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA00716 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 08:59:49 -0800 Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA00701 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 08:59:46 -0800 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (4.1/campino-6) id AA29043; Wed, 25 Jan 95 15:56:50 +0100 Received: by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (QAA14268); Wed, 25 Jan 1995 16:03:20 +0100 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 16:03:20 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199501251503.QAA14268@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: elm under 2.x-current Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anyone using the elm-2.4 from ports? I installed it on a snap-950120 system and elm seems to have problems with /var/mail. I wanted to peek into freefall or thud to look at the permissions of /usr/local/bin/elm and /var/mail but the Internet links were so terribly slow today that I gave up. When there is a file /var/mail/user elm waits in a lock loop waiting for access to the file and gives up after 7 tries. I don't know whether this is due to the file locking method I chose during elm configuration (flock) and this may have been wrong or what the issue is here. I'll give it another try without file locking (or another method) now. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #1: Wed Jan 18 10:42:31 1995 kuku@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUES i386