"EXT-Li, Yung A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to use nmh-1.0.2 on HPUX 10.20 and I'm having this problem ...
>
> "Now, 'inc' won't work. The error says "can't fopen and lock
> /var/mail/<mymaildrop>"
>
> > I solved this problem before in mh, except I can't remember if I edited
> > the 'mts.conf' or 'config.h'
> >
> > So, I try both. I edited 'mts.conf' as the man page suggested. Didn't
> > work ...
> >
> > I thought I'd edit the 'config.h'. And suddenly 'make' doesn't work ...
> >
> > It wants to run 'autoheader' and can't find it ...
> >
> > But I did NOT have this problem when I built it the first time ...."
> >
> > I'm pulling my hair out ... please help.
On HP-UX 10.20, /var/mail is writable by the mail group, but not by
'other'. Therefore, inc needs to be installed setgid mail. I just
installed nmh-1.0.2 on an HP-UX 10.20 machine and verified that this works
properly. Are you installing as root? If not, you won't be able to make
inc setgid.
Or did you perhaps re-run configure? nmh-1.0.2 had a bug (now fixed in the
latest nmh-1.0.2+dev source) where if you re-ran configure the name of the
group owning the mail spool would become NULL in uip/Makefile.
As far as getting your current source tree back to where you can compile
again, you'd probably have to install GNU autoconf. Otherwise I'd suggest
starting over with a fresh source tree (perhaps the latest CVS source).
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