Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 22:16:08 -0700 (PDT) From: imsleepy <imsleepy@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pine error - pine starts readonly Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910042212380.1221-100000@muffin.fshcrkr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910042159470.1084-100000@muffin.fshcrkr.com>
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On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, imsleepy wrote: > [Mailbox is open by another process, access is readonly] > > i get the above whenever i start pine as any use other than root, but i > know i dont have any other processes of pine running. even after i > reboot, login, and type 'pine' it starts up with > [Mailbox is open by another process, access is readonly] > > any ideas? > > -scott > heh, i figured out what it was. / was fulling up a lot for me because /tmp kept getting big, so i changed /tmp to a symlink to /var/tmp, and i guess it got root permissions, so pine couldn't use it or something. for the time being i did 'chmod a+rw /tmp' and 'chmod a+rw /var/tmp'. is that correct? im not really fond of having some gapeing hole in on my computer because of me not setting the attributes correctly. also, what permissions should /var have? thanks and sorry -scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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