From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 31 00:08:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA04813 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA04804 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:08:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA21976; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:37:23 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA04915; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:37:21 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980831163721.G606@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:37:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Lanny Baron , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: popper... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Lanny Baron on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 12:06:34AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 31 August 1998 at 0:06:34 -0400, Lanny Baron wrote: > I have just set up my pop3 mailer and when I tried to get mail from > another box I just get password failure. When logged into this box I get > the following message. > > beef# passwAug 30 15:46:46 beef popper[244]: Unable to open temporary > maildrop ' > /var/mail/.beef.pop': Permission denied (13) > > I have not changed any passwd's. Can someone please tell me how to fix > this? It's trying to open or create a file in /var/mail. If it's opening it, the permissions of the file are inappropriate. If it's creating it, the permissions of the directory are inappropriate. You can see both with 'ls -al /var/mail'. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message