From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 2 5:22:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD3637B419 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 05:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b144.otenet.gr [212.205.244.152]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g12DM3LA028686; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:22:04 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g12DM1C71143; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:22:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:22:00 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uh, spoke too soon. Same pine error. Message-ID: <20020202132200.GA70646@hades.hell.gr> References: <4.2.0.58.20020202011114.0097e180@pop.netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020202011114.0097e180@pop.netzero.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-02-02 01:13, Lord Raiden wrote: > Ok, the chmod fixed the first issue, but now nobody can get their > mail. Even when mail hits the server they get the error that no mail > exists. So I undid the first fix, and we're back to the first > error. "[Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/mail must have 1777 > protection]" What do the following commands print? # ls -ld /var/mail # ls -ld "/var/mail/$USER" You probably messed up with the permissions and owner of /var/mail and the files in it. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message