I just made the switch the debian distribution,
and I'm fairly impressed with it so far. However,
with the installation of the elm 2.4pl25-2
package, filter appears to be broken. It panics
when it tries to lock, reporting:
filter (Wed Aug 21 09:30:32 1996 eamon): Mailing message to eamon
filter (Wed Aug 21 09:31:02 1996 eamon): Couldn't create lock file
filter (Wed Aug 21 09:31:02 1996 eamon): Can't open mailbox
/var/spool/mail/eamon!
filter (Wed Aug 21 09:31:02 1996 eamon): Using /home/eamon/EMERGENCY_MBOX as
emergency mailbox
Permissions on the inboxes in /var/spool/mail are
660, owned by owner and grouped by 'mail'. Normal
mail (smail) delivery seems to be going smoothly
with no locking errors. Any ideas?
- Eamon Daly
Manager, Electronic Marketing
(847) 785 8000 x205
