Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:15:37 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke> To: Fengping Li <fli@studsys.mscs.mu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: READ-ONLY mbox! (fwd) Message-ID: <20000910171537.D25543@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <20000908104700.A7905@studsys.mscs.mu.edu>; from Fengping Li on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:47:00AM -0500 References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000905161657.20483D-100000@post.its.mcw.edu> <20000908104700.A7905@studsys.mscs.mu.edu>
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Quoting Fengping Li <fli@studsys.mscs.mu.edu>: [000908 18:49]: Fengping Li>Hi there, Fengping Li> Fengping Li>Did you resolved your problem? Fengping Li>The following is what I did to resolve this problem: Fengping Li>as root, run: Fengping Li>chown -R user-name /var/mail/user-name My problem was coming after a make buildworld. Someone suggested that it is related to something in mtree which I quite did not understand, but I left it for future investigation. After rebuilding somehow the permissions on /var/mail kept changing and with the assistance of pine (it actually told me what the issue was when I tried it instead of mutt) I had to change the permissions on /var/mail to 1777 Rgds -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 When you see a light at the end of the tunnel, make sure it does not get any brighter. It could just be the headlight of an oncoming train. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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