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- From: sarma@rtsg.mot.com (Raja Sarma)
- Subject: Question on dotlock file ?
- Message-ID: <sarma.721087575@celery18>
- Sender: news@rtsg.mot.com
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- Distribution: na
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:06:15 GMT
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- Hi,
- Could someone tell me :
- 1) What is the role played by the lock file
- created when starting elm in "/usr/spool/mail" directory.?
-
- 2) Why create it only in mail spool directory.?
-
- 3) Would there be any problem if it gets created under home or
- any user specified directory ?.
-
- Reason for me to ask these questions:
- What happens if /usr/spool/mail directory has write permission
- for the "world" and elm with lock option compiled defined does
- not execute. It simply exits with the message:
- "Can't create lock file! Need write permission in
- "/usr/spool/mail/" permissions on /usr/spool/mail".
-
- My Environment: ELM 2.4(PL6) on SUN 3/80 over NFS network.
-
- Currently I am using elm after compiling with "dotlock" option "undef"ed.
- However, I would very much like to use ELM with lock file option
- "define"d.
-
- Please E-mail me directly and I'll post a summary of the replies.
-
- Thanks
-
- -- Raja
- sarma@maize.rtsg.mot.com
-
-