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

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> 
> 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?

Does the mail user have permission to create new files in /var/mail? File 
locking is usually done by creating temporary lock files.

-- 
J.


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