Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 9 May 1998 17:51:07 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Kevin <kevinx@singnet.com.sg>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mailbox locked?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980509174832.7152A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9805100448.A15794-0100000@wisteria.singnet.com.sg>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Kevin wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>When I tried to run Pine as a normal user, I got this msg "Can't open 
>mailbox lock, access is readonly"

The lock file goes in /tmp. Have you changed the perms on /tmp? If Jane
User can't write to /tmp then pine can't write the lock file.

Thank you,       | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at.
Jason Wells	 | http://www.freebsd.org/


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980509174832.7152A-100000>