From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 17:52:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22744 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 17:52:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22731 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 17:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id RAA12046; Sat, 9 May 1998 17:52:31 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id RAA11123; Sat, 9 May 1998 17:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 17:51:07 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Kevin cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailbox locked? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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