mh on SGI's: problems getting it to work just right

Tom Reingold tr at samadams.princeton.edu
Fri Jun 21 01:07:30 AEST 1991


dwallach at nas.nasa.gov (Dan Wallach) writes:

$ [...]
$ (this is likely an SGI only problem...)
$ inc doesn't work on /usr/mail/dwallach, but it works just fine on any other
$ file out there.  inc will hang for a minute and then print:

$ inc: unable to lock and fopen /usr/mail/dwallach

$ Relevant file info:
$ drwxrwxr-x   3 root     mail       20480 Jun 13 19:08 /usr/mail/
$ -rw-rw----   1 dwallach mail       14016 Jun 13 18:52 /usr/mail/dwallach
$ [...]

Do this:

	chgrp inc
	chmod g+s inc

That will do it.  I had to do this on a 3b2 running System V too.
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        Tom Reingold
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