From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Apr 1 4:29:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from Peachy.euronet.nl (peachy.euronet.nl [194.134.32.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1404B37B71C for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 04:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from FruitCake@Peachy.euronet.nl) Received: from localhost (fruitcake@localhost) by Peachy.euronet.nl (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f31BN9w91073 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:23:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from FruitCake@Peachy.euronet.nl) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:23:09 +0200 (CEST) From: cyberpunk@euronet.nl X-Sender: fruitcake@Peachy.euronet.nl Reply-To: cyberpunk@euronet.nl To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: newbie question... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hey people, I'm an incredible newbie, so I prolly have a stupid question ;) My pine keeps giving me the following message when I recieve an email, [Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection] my /var/mail has the following modes: in/var/mail; drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Apr 1 12:50 ./ drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 512 Mar 6 10:09 ../ -rw------- 1 fruitcake wheel 1228994 Apr 1 13:06 fruitcake -rw------- 1 root wheel 126555 Apr 1 05:30 root in /var; drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Apr 1 13:07 mail/ whats going on!??! I'm not getting this.. oh yeah, and a colleague of mine decided to make a FreeBSD partition on a windoze machine, and whenever he tries to create the slice, it wont.. It'll keep saying unused, and sometimes just add a flag "A" to it.. he's wondering what the problem is.. Grts, Fruity aka Esty -- whatis life life: nothing appropriate >> build mind checking whether build enviroment is sane checking for working makeinfo...found checking for mind-config..(cached) no checking for brain -version >=1.0.0...no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message