Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 05:55:53 +0800 (SST) From: Kevin <kevinx@singnet.com.sg> To: Calvin Meloon <calvin@corp.gulf.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailbox locked? Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9805100523.A5144-0100000@wisteria.singnet.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980509162228.29770B-100000@marlin.corp.gulf.net>
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On Sat, 9 May 1998, Calvin Meloon wrote: > That message indicates that you have a pine session open. Do a 'ps' to see > what processes are open for the kevinx user. You will then need to kill > the old process. hi, Afraid that isnt the problem. Other users also have the same problem. I think i had screwed up the mail's group permission? or what? [kevinx@vmuniz kevinx]$ ./pop querying singnet.com.sg popclient: openuserfolder: open(): Permission denied [kevinx@vmuniz kevinx]$ That is what i got when trying to use popclient to get mail from my isp. So I su to root and run popclient and changed the mail file "kevinx" group permission. -rw------- 1 root mail 4716 May 10 05:47 kevinx [root@vmuniz mail]# chown kevinx.kevinx kevinx but got this [kevinx@vmuniz kevinx]$ mail /tmp/Rx000312: Permission denied > Of course, if you're reading this in pine, your extra process has already > been terminated. :-) I have to telnet to my isp to read and send mail :-> thanks, kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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