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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Another rmail problem in GNU emacs
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Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 11:39:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 17 11:39:29 1987
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In article <2939@pegasus.UUCP> avi@pegasus.UUCP (60021254-Avi E. Gross;LZ 3C-314;6241) writes:
>
>Thanks to Karl Kleinpaste, I have GNU emacs up on a 3B20 running SV_R2.
Yes, thanks Karl.... (He provided it for my Vax).
>[ Omitted long description of Rmail and /usr/mail problem ]
>Has anybody else fixed this yet, and how? I wonder if anybody is running this
>package who is not root! When I got my tar version from Karl, I couldn't even
>take it apart unless I was suid root.

The problem is not in the elisp code, but rather in the c program,
movemail.  Movemail tries to create a lock file in /usr/mail.  It
cannot do this on most systems and fails.  The fix (I can mail it to
you over datakit) is to move the lock file to /usr/tmp.  A very simple
fix.  I have also rewritten part of the aliasing mechanism to do
includes in alias files (common around AT&T).

In regards to your other question:
I did bring up all of GNUmacs without being root.  That is how things
should be.

-- 

Paul Guthrie
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