eric@CS2.WSU.EDU (11/23/88)
> When I invoke rmail, emacs gives me an error in the minibuffer which reads:- > movemail: unable to create lock file > The same message appears when I try to get new mail from rmail mode. > Do I need write access to /usr/spool/mail or is there a way to get > around this ? If you are running on a SYSV system such as HP-UX, then the movemail program must run sgid 'mail'. You can check by looking in the $EMACS/etc directory and an ll of movemail should look something like: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 53052 Sep 5 20:49 etc/movemail If this is not the case, then your Emacs is not installed correctly. Eric Schneider (eric@cs2.wsu.edu)