From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 9 3:22:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.shagged.org (rtfm.shagged.org [195.11.8.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0EDD37B403 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 03:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chris by mail.shagged.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15g1jf-000LTT-00; Sun, 09 Sep 2001 11:22:43 +0100 Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:22:43 +0100 From: Chris Elsworth To: "Thomas Krause, CI" Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with tpop3d 1.3.4 and mailbox mode Message-ID: <20010909112243.A82534@shagged.org> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010909111317.00a8e248@mta.webmatic.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010909111317.00a8e248@mta.webmatic.de>; from freebsd@chef-ingenieur.de on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:22:54AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:22:54AM +0200, Thomas Krause, CI wrote: > > Hi, > > I've installed tpop3d from the ports. I'm using standard mailboxes in > /var/mail. With tpop3d I'm unable to retrieve mails. In maillog I have: > > Sep 8 18:12:15 tom-test tpop3d[5993]: dotfile_lock(/var/mail/tom): unable to > create hitching post: Permission denied > > I belive this is a problem with permission of /var/mail. It's working when > setting /var/mail to 777, standard is 775. Are you running tpop3d as root, or in the group that has write access to /var/mail ? It's trying to create a $user.lock file in /var/mail and failing because it doesn't have permission to do so. -- Chris Elsworth - Software & Systems Developer / Systems Administrator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message