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Subject: Re: elm problem :)
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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> 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.

I don't run Elm setgid mail and I also use 755 perms on /var/mail.
However, when I first installed elm, I (perhaps foolishly) used world
rwx with setgid mail and the sticky bit on /var/mail.

Fcntl didn't work then, but it's possible that it will now.  I'll have
to try it.