Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:37:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: popper... Message-ID: <19980831163721.G606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980830154756.249A-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>; from Lanny Baron on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 12:06:34AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980830154756.249A-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>
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On Monday, 31 August 1998 at 0:06:34 -0400, Lanny Baron wrote: > I have just set up my pop3 mailer and when I tried to get mail from > another box I just get password failure. When logged into this box I get > the following message. > > beef# passwAug 30 15:46:46 beef popper[244]: Unable to open temporary > maildrop ' > /var/mail/.beef.pop': Permission denied (13) > > I have not changed any passwd's. Can someone please tell me how to fix > this? It's trying to open or create a file in /var/mail. If it's opening it, the permissions of the file are inappropriate. If it's creating it, the permissions of the directory are inappropriate. You can see both with 'ls -al /var/mail'. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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