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- From: larryp@sco.COM (Larry Philps)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: SCO Unix v3.2.2 and Elm v2.3 woes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.134713.14922@sco.COM>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 13:47:13 GMT
- References: <1992Aug29.194524.5658@generic.uucp> <1992Aug30.143831.19268@DSI.COM>
- Sender: news@sco.COM (News administration)
- Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.
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- In <1992Aug30.143831.19268@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
- > marekp@generic.uucp (Marek Pawlowski) writes:
- > > Having ELM Version 2.3 installed (seemingly) correctly, we were all
- > >impressed by it's power and quality. However, if any user other than
- > >root tries to send mail (by replying, or composing from scratch) the
- > >following error message intrudes on the user's screen, and the message is
- > >not sent. Any ideas or help would be appreciated! (And yes, the elm
- > >binary is setuid' to root :-?).
- > >
- > >submit: [ Permission denied ] Unable to change directory.
- > >submit: message submission aborted
- > This is the well known problem where SCO distributed the directories
- > with the wrong permissions. Run the MMDF script checkup and follow its
- > instructions to change some of the directory permissions. Then Elm will
- > work much better.
-
- Just to clarify, the name of the program to run is /usr/mmdf/bin/checkup.
- Fix the things it complains about, and your problem will disappear.
-
- > Secondly, Elm need not be Setuid root. SCO UNIX, being a SysV UNIX,
- > Elm should be setgid mail, with /usr/mail being group mail and permissions
- > 775. Thats all Elm needs, there is no reason for it to be setuid root.
-
- Actually no. SCO MMDF by default uses "fcntl" file locking, and for
- that elm needs to be neither setuid root nor setgid mail. In order to
- get fcntl file locking support for ELM 2.3 PL11, you need an unofficial
- patch. I have posted/mail this to many people of the last couple of
- years. If you do not have it, send me mail, and I will get you a copy.
-
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