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From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Another rmail problem in GNU emacs
Message-ID: <3146@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 07:04:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 18 07:04:38 1987
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In-reply-to: pdg@ihdev.UUCP's message of 17 Feb 87 16:39:29 GMT
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.35.1 of Wed Jan 14 1987

pdg@ihdev.UUCP writes:

   >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.

No, don't do that.  /bin/mail defines a convention regarding the
creation of lock files in /usr/mail.  If you cause movemail to create
locks in /usr/tmp, it will not be obeying the proper convention of the
incumbent software.  You will cause conflicts if mail arrives while
movemail is pushing your mail around elsewhere.

   >I did bring up all of GNUmacs without being root.  That is how things
   >should be.

The problem wasn't that he had to be root to install it, it was that I
botched the tar file sent to him (and you, I think) so that it had to
be *unpacked* as root, unless you have an `o' option to tar to prevent
chown'ing.
-- 
Karl