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From: gertjan@atcmpe.UUCP (Gertjan Vinkesteyn)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: mkdir ~/.elm required
Summary: mkdir .elm does work
Keywords: mkdir .elm directory
Message-ID: <464@atcmpe.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 10:01:49 GMT
References: <286@wubios.wustl.edu>
Organization: AT Computing BV, Nijmegen The Netherlands
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In article <286@wubios.wustl.edu>, david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
> Some of my users are encountering a hurdle when they try to do an
> operation that requires that a file on the ~/.elm directory be opened.
> If the directory does not exist, they get an error message.  I have been
> telling them to 'mkdir ~/.elm' on a case-by-case basis, but it sure
> would be nice if elm would automatically make this directory when
> needed.  -David-
> 
Line 74 till 84 in the file src/utils.c read:
	/** Some systems don't have a mkdir call - how inconvienient! **/
	
	#ifdef NOMKDIR
		sprintf(com, "mkdir %s/.elm", home);
		system_call(com, SH);
		sprintf(com, "chmod 700 %s/.elm", home);
		system_call(com, SH);
	#else
		sprintf(source, "%s/.elm", home);
		(void) mkdir(source, 0700);
	#endif NOMKDIR

that means to me that it always should work correctly
so what is wrong with your configuration might be that you have the setuid
bit set for user as well as the setgid bit for group. Do a
	chmod 2755 /usr/local/bin/elm
to set the setgid bit only (in most cases to a group called 'mail')
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