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?

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. :-(

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 --

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?

elm problem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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