ELM on IRISES (No write acces in /usr/mail ?)

[Robert Rothe]

silvert at cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
>In article <5079 at unlisys.in-berlin.de> rot at unlisys.in-berlin.de (Robert Rothe) writes:
>[discussion about lock files]

>>But why this ? is there no setgid() available, or doesn't it work ?

>the lock files (which it tries to do in /usr/mail).  The solution which
>worked for me was to change the permissions on /usr/mail from 775 to
>3777 (rwxrwxr-x to rwxrwsrwt), which seems very common on Suns, although
>I don't understand why (by the way, mail with exactly the same
>premissions has no such problems).

Making /usr/mail writeable for all doesn't seem to be the solution ..

>Somehow it seems that setgid() doesn't work right.  Syd suggested that
>perhaps it should be setegid(), but I'm no expert on this stuff.

Can anybody confirm that 'setgid (getegid())' doesn't work on irix ?

	robert.

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