From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 11:44:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA05673 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from central.picker.com (central.picker.com [144.54.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA05664 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct.picker.com by central.picker.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #3) id m0uaRRb-0004rnC; Sun, 30 Jun 96 14:42 EDT Received: from elmer.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00451; Sun, 30 Jun 96 14:41:27 EDT Received: by elmer.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA19788; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:43:00 -0400 From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Message-Id: <199606301843.OAA19788@elmer.picker.com> Subject: Re: Installing ELM To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:42:59 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606301757.KAA06914@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Jun 30, 96 10:57:55 am Reply-To: rhh@ct.picker.com Organization: Picker International, CT Division X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I installed ELM yesterday and when I tried to run it, it says "attempt to >> lock mail..." then after 6 attempts it exited out with an error. >> >> I bet someone had the same experience and knew the fix. Help!!! Yep. Here's what I'm using (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