newslock fails

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:59:29 +0100

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Hi,

On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 11:39:22PM +0100, Henning Jebsen wrote:
> I did some (lots ;-)) modifications to faxspool.
> Using faxspool with different users, (root, test01, test02)
> leads to errors like "can't lock .Seg.lock". Sometimes
> rm says operation  not permitted, when trying to delete
> the lock File.

This is true, but only for old versions of faxspool.

This was fixed in 0.99.8, released December 23, 1997.

> What's wrong ?

Ancient version.  Or your "(lots) modifications" broke something - what
shall I say?  If you change code, and things break, you're on your own.

gert

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