From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 13 02:11:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA01581 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 02:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.7da.nl (nic.7da.nl [195.108.246.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA01555 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 02:11:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from psd.7da.nl [195.108.246.100] by nic.7da.nl id LAA30669; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:01:49 +0200 Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] by gromit.nev.ml.org id KAA00233; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:44:41 +0200 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:44:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: Paul Dekkers To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMAP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Doug White wrote: >> I have a question about IMAP; I installed the IMAP port from the port >> collection on my FreeBSD 2.2.1 CD, but after compiling I get an error >> using pine in combination with IMAP. I get the following error message: >> '{gromit.nev.ml.org}INBOX : Error creating /var/mail/paul.lock.87341562.18.19g' >> >> What can I do against it? I got the same message using Linux btw... >> Please CC the reply to me, I'm not subscribed to the list... > >Make sure that /var/mail has perms 775. but in that case the owner has to be GID users or smth so that people with GID users can create lockfiles? but I don't want to let them put trash to it, is that possible? now they can write over there... :-( -= Paul =- __ _ / |_| | / _ \ Paul Dekkers (paul@gromit.eu.org) | o o `. _ | O |_| | discover Atomic Infinity!!! `.___/ | | | http://library.advanced.org/12082/ /` \