From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 25 12:13:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05842 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:13:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05830 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:13:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA08370; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 09:11:18 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 09:11:17 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Jerry cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inbox READ ONLY In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Jerry wrote: > I have no problem with pine under root but users are getting Inbox Read > Only when they get mail through pine. > > The permissions look ok..... > > drwxrwxr-x /var/mail > -rw------- /var/mail/user1 > -rw------- /var/mail/user2 > > any ideas? pine needs to have write permission on /var/mail. /var/mail should have gid=mail, so pine needs to be install setgid=mail as well. Cheers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen | Opportunites are seldom labeled --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message