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- From: st@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
- Subject: Re: problems compiling elm
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- References: <4gkh1g$5cn@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> <DnDrBv.921@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:06:24 GMT
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- In article <DnDrBv.921@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>, Joern Clausen
- (joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE) wrote:
- > Eka Durmin (eka@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:
-
- > : I just compiled elm-2.4p25. It compiled well, but when I try to read my
- > : mail, elm says that my mailfile is still receiving messages... then it waits
- > : 7 seconds and then elm quits.
- > : There is also lock file in /var/mail (/var/mail/eka.lock).
- >
- > : I used to use elm-2.4p23... this older version works well.. but I didn't
- > : compile it myself.
- >
- > : I think that I did something wrong when I have to answer some questions to
- > : the configuration-script before compiling elm-2.4p25.
- >
- > What locking methods have you compiled into elm? I use only dot-locking,
- > neither flock nor fcntl, and elm works fine fore me.
-
- ISTR that either flock or fcntl on their own will work, but selecting both
- will result in the above behaviour.
-
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