Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:15:33 +0000 () From: User GEOFF <geoff@ginsu.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: FreeBSD <bsd@ee.petra.ac.id>, questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: elm problem :) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.91.951113081332.1745A-100000@schwing.ginsu.com> In-Reply-To: <199511130728.IAA01404@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Ollivier Robert wrote: > It seems that FreeBSD said: > > What's wrong with my elm compiled under FreeBSD : > > > > * it cant read mailbox : > > > > Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being recieved: attempt #? > > Use fcntl as locking mechanism when configuring Elm. Your /var/mail > directory should have the following permissions: > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Oct 17 20:51 /var/mail > I found that if I compiled fcntl into elm it wouldn't work. I had /var/mail wide open and still couldn't get the locking working. I had to remove fcntl for it to work. Geoff.
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