[2417] in RedHat Linux List
Re: ELM Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Schout)
Sun Nov 3 00:47:45 1996
From: Mike Schout <mike@Twoface.tamu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 23:45:36 -0600 (CST)
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611030506.XAA04897@hi.registrar.ksu.edu> from James Cook at "Nov 2, 96 11:06:01 pm"
Reply-To: m-schout@tamu.edu
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> For some odd reason, ELM today decided that for my user account,
mail
was always going to be received. So every time I launch ELM it comes up with
that message "Waiting for mail to be received" and times out after 7 seconds.
The problem is I'm not rec
eiving anything there. :/ Why for?
>
> ={) James (}=
> jrc8337@hi.registrar.ksu.edu
>
Sometimes the locking mechanism on elm breaks down. A simple fix is this:
cp /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME /tmp
rm /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
elm (it should come up now without any problems)
check to see that elm recreated the file /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
cat /tmp/$LOGNAME > /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
anways, that will take care of it
Mike
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