Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ORA.ORA.COM!jerry From: jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Installation procedure needs fixing? Message-ID: Date: 22 Jun 91 05:39:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 47 I had this same problem when I installed MH under Interactive UNIX with: version: MH 6.7.1 #10[UCI] (ora) of Sun Jan 13 14:59:04 EST 1991 options: [DUMB] [FOLDPROT='"0751"'] [MHRC] [MSGPROT='"0640"'] [NDIR] [RPATHS] [SHADOW] [SYS5] [SYS5DIR] [TYPESIG='void'] [ZONEINFO] [SENDMTS] [SMTP] [SPRINTFTYPE=int] Maybe I did something stoopid. In case I didn't, though, please take this article as a bug report. --Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: mh on SGI's: problems getting it to work just right Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 15:07:30 GMT References: <1991Jun14.022021.14745@nas.nasa.gov> Sender: news@newross.Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science dwallach@nas.nasa.gov (Dan Wallach) writes: $ [...] $ (this is likely an SGI only problem...) $ inc doesn't work on /usr/mail/dwallach, but it works just fine on any other $ file out there. inc will hang for a minute and then print: $ inc: unable to lock and fopen /usr/mail/dwallach $ Relevant file info: $ drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 20480 Jun 13 19:08 /usr/mail/ $ -rw-rw---- 1 dwallach mail 14016 Jun 13 18:52 /usr/mail/dwallach $ [...] Do this: chgrp inc chmod g+s inc That will do it. I had to do this on a 3b2 running System V too. -- Tom Reingold tr@samadams.princeton.edu OR ...!princeton!samadams!tr "Warning: Do not drive with Auto-Shade in place. Remove from windshield before starting ignition."