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From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
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Subject: Re: problem with ELM
To: vdongre@rolta.com (Vrushal Dongre)
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 20:20:58 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199607081639.AA22600@68f800.rolta.com> from "Vrushal Dongre" at Jul 8, 96 04:39:25 pm
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Vrushal Dongre:
 >I have a FBSD 2.0 mailserver & I have installed ELM on the system.
 >The compilation went OK .
 >But now when I type elm at the prompt I get the following messages :-
 >
 >  Waiting  to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #n
 >
 >After 7 attempts it says:-
 >  Giving up after 7 iteration.
 >  Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes.
 >  Timed out on locking mailbox. Leaving program.
 >
 >Can anyone tell me what I have to do to make ELM work ? If I make any changes
 >to the configuration file will I have to recompile the whole thing again ? 
 >i.e. run --> 'make all ' ?

Here's what I'm using in my ELM (from config.h):


/*#define       USE_FLOCK_LOCKING*/             /**/

#define USE_DOTLOCK_LOCKING             /**/

#define USE_FCNTL_LOCKING       /**/

#define         LOCK_DIR        "/var/spool/uucp"       /**/


then, pick a group that all your mail users will be in (e.g. staff) and
then (as root):

cd /var
chgrp staff mail
chmod 2777 mail


Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com