From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 09:44:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA06512 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:44:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06429 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:43:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zbSnu-0004HZ-00; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:02:38 +0000 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:02:38 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: adm Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: popper Message-ID: <19981105170238.C16404@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <000401be0933$a69c5d40$0300000a@suhov.orgus.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <000401be0933$a69c5d40$0300000a@suhov.orgus.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG adm wrote: > I installed qpopper2.53 on my FreeBSD2.2.1. Everything was OK. But when I tried to open my mailbox it gave the messages like this: > Unable to open temporary maildrop ' /var/mail/.vit.pop': Permission denied(13) > ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it? The permissions must be wrong. What does this show: ls -la /var/mail You may need to fix some permissions, /var/mail in the default FreeBSD is mode 775, try changing that to 1777, which works here (Exim doesn't work at all with it as mode 775, since it doesn't have permission to create lock files in there) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message