From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 00:02:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA20897 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 00:02:39 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA20890 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 00:02:36 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA04611 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 00:00:12 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA00130; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:54:36 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA13420; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:54:35 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA24906; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:30:00 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511130730.IAA24906@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: elm problem :) To: bsd@ee.petra.ac.id (FreeBSD) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:30:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "FreeBSD" at Nov 13, 95 09:30:02 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 727 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As FreeBSD wrote: > > What's wrong with my elm compiled under FreeBSD : > > * it cant read mailbox : > > Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being recieved: attempt #? Configure elm to only use either flock or fcntl-style locking. Lockfile-based locking is only good when sharing a mail spool via NFS (since FreeBSD currently doesn't support NFS locking), but it requires elm to run setgid, and to change the group permissions of the mail spool directory. Unfortunately, elm itself suggests that using all three methods would be safer (which it isn't). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)