Re: [Nmh-workers] problems with slocal

[Jerrad Pierce]

>You might try telling slocal to be verbose, in which case it might
>say what was going wrong, or alternatively run under a debugger and
>see why status is being set to -1...
This has been suggested before, but it's not the most end-user friendly route.

# slocal -debug
vec[0]: "default"
vec[1]: "-"
vec[2]: "file"
vec[3]: "R"
vec[4]: "/var/spool/mail/belg4mit"
delivering to file "/var/spool/mail/belg4mit" (mbox style), unable to 
open:Permission denied

It seems the liblockfile integration is somehow busted here...
nmh is compiled with HAVE_LIBLOCKFILE, and liblockfile works:

-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 32666 Jul 27 22:03 /usr/local/bin/dotlockfile

% dotlockfile -m; ls -la /var/mail/
total 5272
drwxrwxr-x  2 root     mail    4096 Jul 27 22:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root     root    4096 Feb 14 13:33 ..
-rw-rw---- 1 admin    mail       0 Nov  7  2008 admin
-rw-rw---- 1 belg4mit mail    6945 Jul 27 21:29 belg4mit
-rw-r--r-- 1 belg4mit mail       2 Jul 27 22:55 belg4mit.lock
-rw------- 1 root     mail 5373428 Jul 27 22:32 root
-rw-rw---- 1 webapps  mail       0 Nov  7  2008 webapps
% dotlockfile -m -u; ls -l /var/mail/
total 5268
-rw-rw---- 1 admin    mail       0 Nov  7  2008 admin
-rw-rw---- 1 belg4mit mail    6945 Jul 27 21:29 belg4mit
-rw------- 1 root     mail 5373428 Jul 27 22:32 root
-rw-rw---- 1 webapps  mail       0 Nov  7  2008 webapps

Yet, as determined through liberal printfs, the lockfile.c invocation
of liblockfile's lockfile_create fails when reached from slocal...

Any thoughts?
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