Re: [hosers-talk] building nmh -- resolved

["Jon Stewart" <stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Wow, of the four possible combinations of case preservation and case
> sensitivity Apple picked the worst one. Glad you figured that out; I don't
> know anything about Mac-specific stuff.


How is not(case preserving) better than case preserving? <insert Unix fs 
here> is case preserving.

I'm ambivalent on case insensitivity. Yes, this was a puzzler (I figured
it out on Saturday; I didn't spend the whole weekend working on it or
anything). And, yes, one would [maybe] think that when you go looking for
"install" a file named "INSTALLED" shouldn't match; OTOH, it can be a
feature (FUCK THE SHIFT KEY) if you're expecting it. I've yet to hear a
convincing argument for why you should have files differing only by case
in the same directory. I mean, that's dumb.

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New problem: inc is "unable to lock and fopen /var/mail/jon".

This particular file is owned by me, but is only readable and writeable by 
root, a user who doesn't "exist" on my system (by choice -- permissions 
are _tight_).

Doing "sudo chmod u+rw /var/mail/jon" has no effect, according to ls.

I have no idea if this is a real permissions problem or an nmh config 
problem. "mail" seems to be able to read and zero the mail drop.

Thoughts?



Jon
-- 
Jon Stewart
stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx

"and dropping a barbell, he points to the sky, saying 'the sun's not 
yellow, it's chicken.'"

			-- Bob Dylan
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