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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:15:33 +0000 ()
From: User GEOFF <geoff@ginsu.com>
To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: elm problem :)
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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.