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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:58:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: chris <chrisj@outcast.media-net.net>
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Subject: Re: qpopper system error
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, chris wrote:

> it seems that everything is up and running with the popper daemen, but
> when i telnet to the mail port and try to log in with user and pass
> it returns the following error, "-ERR System error, can't open temporary
> file, do you own it?". then the server kills the connection

Check that /var/mail is owned by bin:bin mode 777 (for now -- you might
try 770 later).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major