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From: gplan@umb.umb.edu (George Planansky)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.alliant
Subject: emacs rmail lock file question
Keywords: emacs rmail lockfile alliant
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Date: 6 Jun 90 22:23:56 GMT
Organization: UMASS-Boston, Boston, MA
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Gnu-emacs' rmail, on our Alliant FX-4, reports the error that it cannot 
create a lock file, and hence will not read the system mail file.

The correct filenames and paths are being given to movemail, in
rmail.el.  As is, I believe movemail is trying to create the lockfile
of the form: /usr/spool/mail/gplan.lock but gplan as such does not
have permissions for that.

Making movemail includes specification of the definition
"MAIL_USE_FLOCK" -- I left this undefined, but don't remember if I
knew why ... .  Is this the problem, and is the cure to remake
movemail with "MAIL_USE_FLOCK" defined?  Or is it something else?

Thanks in advance for your help.  (Please email to me.)

George Planansky                   email to:   gplan@ra.umb.edu
Atmosphere Environment Research
Cambridge MA 02139
(617) 547-6207