if you start xemacs from a prompt it throws the following error. WARNING: Couldn't find obvious defaults for: lock-directory Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable, /usr/bin/xemacs is in a strange place? xemacs then starts after a short pause and runs normally. However my users think its an error and post it to an internal problem list. so its VERY annoying to me. more so I can't get it to go away with an RC modification. Thanks
Create this directory so that xemacs stops whining: /var/lock/xemacs That's all there is to it. It wasn't included in the build because it wasn't created when installing from a tarball, this is going to be fixed in the next release. Tim
Not a dumb question at all! I was sitting here saying "what the..." for abit too ;) Tim