Re: elm problem
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: How do I fix the Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3 Sounds like mail is being delivered, so the mailbox is locked against elm reading it until the delivery is complete. Does it eventually read the mailbox ok? Don't think so. However netscape was unwilling to read the mail folder either, suggesting permissions 01777 for /usr/spool/mail. Once I set that things worked okay. Looks like another great feature of Linux 2.1 ... This permissions thing is biting me every day now, so I think it might be time to put 2.0.27 back on. hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
How do I fix the Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3 problem? Permissions of /usr/spool/mail _appear_ to be correct, although every day I found many new permission problems with my system here. /tmp loses proper permissions every second day or so. :-( hamish This sounds like a problem I've had before. Look for the file /usr/spool/mail/user.lock and remove it if it exists. This fixed it for me. -- Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~fols9488 Life is wasted on the living. - The Master -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: How do I fix the Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3 Sounds like mail is being delivered, so the mailbox is locked against elm reading it until the delivery is complete. Does it eventually read the mailbox ok? problem? Permissions of /usr/spool/mail _appear_ to be correct, although every day I found many new permission problems with my system here. /tmp loses proper permissions every second day or so. :-( Well it took me several tries to get things straight with this package. To the best of my knowledge these issues are correct. If you have 2.4pl25-6 then you have my latest/greatest version. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 08:19 PM 10/29/96 +1100, Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then quit. Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 That used to occur from a bug in an old Slackware release. This had to do with permissions/ownership settings of the inbox files in /var/spool/mail. Check to see if they are: -rw-rw username mail Hope this helps. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.7.1 Comment: Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMnZbGgSsHV9rOgLdAQGohgQAgikTc9WmKytyT+dfoRMKHsXlUF0XZU5r lRZBQyFaDPddJ/M3K/vcCvHbqmIKSN890c9SbkQbuaG7k7IVyIOQvpWkr+feN6Yw +mCR92vLg/mK0CyDh1MR00wumLML4kgn/jwFCIcBzr5AJco2ysVsbwwnKcybd5rQ +/+5W+u8XJs= =8WjU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Fingerprint = 6C 2A A6 83 4A 57 B7 95 B7 79 A6 D7 F7 16 04 5C PGP KeyID = 0x6B3A02DD -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
Erik van der Meulen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 08:19 PM 10/29/96 +1100, Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then quit. Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 That used to occur from a bug in an old Slackware release. This had to do with permissions/ownership settings of the inbox files in /var/spool/mail. Check to see if they are: -rw-rw username mail Hope this helps. the permission is ok. it is strange because other user have no problem to use elm, but only of the users. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 Giving up after 7 iterations. Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes. However, I can use mailx to read my mail. Please check the file ownership of your mail-folder in /var/spool/mail/whatever_user_name_you_use and also of the file /tmp/mbox.whatever.user... These are often screwed up (don't ask me why)...I already had this kind of problem. Jeneral hint with the diagnostic of such faults is to run the program inside 'strace' just run strace elm and watch the output...Somewhere you will notice kernel file-operations failing with an error-code. Strace gives you a short verbose reason, and further you can figure out which file is causing the misbehaviour. hope this helps regards, Stoyan -- Stoyan Kenderov/ phone: +49 721 9652 220 NTG Netzwerk und Telematic GmbH \/ fax: +49 721 9652 210 Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 3/\ LINK email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /___ http://www.xlink.net/~kenderov/ [Opinions stated herein are my own, not necessarily my employer's] PGP: http://www.xlink.net/~kenderov/public.key.asc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then quit. Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #1 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #2 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #4 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #5 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #6 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #7 Giving up after 7 iterations. Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes. However, I can use mailx to read my mail. I have rebooted the computer and the elm do the same thing, anyone knows how to fix it? Upgrade to the -4 version. This has been fixed there. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then quit. Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 [deleted] Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #7 Giving up after 7 iterations. Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes. However, I can use mailx to read my mail. I have rebooted the computer and the elm do the same thing, anyone knows how to fix it? Upgrade to the -4 version. This has been fixed there. Where does revision 4 reside? I've looked around in ftp.debian.org and master.debian.org and can't find anything newer than rev 3. -- -Mike Horansky, Leland Consultant (http://consult.stanford.edu/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY ME ARE NOT NECESSARILY SHARED BY MY EMPLOYERS. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Elm problem
Hello, we have the Elm package installed and people are unable to use it for sending e-mail which always fails with a bad call: sh: -oi not found I have the impression that it is trying to tag the -oi flag to the sendmail command but never actually adds the sendmail in front. Are there any patches for this problem around? It is quite urgent as the natives have lost all the e-mail they have sent (before reporting it). I found exactly the same problem. You're right, it seems elm is trying to call sendmail -oi -oem, but leaving out the sendmail part. I also found that that version was not correctly installed sgid mail. Downgrading to the version in stable (elm_2.4pl25-2.deb) fixes both problems. Andrew Booker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Elm problem
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote: Hello, we have the Elm package installed and people are unable to use it for sending e-mail which always fails with a bad call: sh: -oi not found I have the impression that it is trying to tag the -oi flag to the sendmail command but never actually adds the sendmail in front. Are there any patches for this problem around? It is quite urgent as the natives have lost all the e-mail they have sent (before reporting it). Which version are you running? The -3 version had permission problems and I got reports from some about your problem, but several people said that it went away as soon as the permission problem was fixed. If you are running -4 and still have this problem the simplest fix is to downgrade to the -2 version and talk with me in private e-mail. Hope this helps, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
