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Re: weird pine message



On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:

>[Error creating /var/spool/mail/ira.lock.850999139.6405.ard: Permission
>denied]

  You could allow the same permissions on /var/spool/mail as on /tmp,
that is 1777

#ls -ld /var/spool/mail
drwxr-xr-t   3 root     mail         2048 Dec  6 12:25 /var/spool/mail/

# chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail

#ls -ld /var/spool/mail
drwxrwxrwt   3 root     mail         2048 Dec  6 12:25 /var/spool/mail/

  Otherwise, you might have to recompile pine to have it create the lock
file in /tmp.

  Over here, we preferred the first solution because popper and some
odd-ball mailers also put lock files in the mail directory.  Also, the
users can recreate their mailbox should anything happen to the original
one.  Yes, quota is turned on on the mail partition.

alex


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