From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 19:49:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4233E3C for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:49:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA15861; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:40:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA01191; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:40:35 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: cbarnett@netcabtec.com (Chuck Barnett) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: popper Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 03:39:14 GMT Message-ID: <38a4d55b.451346191@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Feb 2000 17:50:01 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >hello, I have popper up and running I can telnet to port 110 and it >responds. but when I try to log in I get this error: >"can't open temporary file, do you own it? " >Anyone have a clue? e.g. normally you see staff# cd /var/mail staff# ls -l .mdtancsa.pop -rw------- 1 mdtancsa mail 0 Feb 11 19:12 .mdtancsa.pop staff# ls -l mdtancsa -rw------- 1 mdtancsa netdial 0 Feb 11 22:36 mdtancsa In your case, it would be staff# cd /var/mail staff# ls -l .mdtancsa.pop -rw------- 1 someotherguy mail 0 Feb 11 19:12 .mdtancsa.pop staff# ls -l mdtancsa -rw------- 1 mdtancsa netdial 0 Feb 11 22:36 mdtancsa i.e. the .pop file exists, but is owned by someone other than the primary mailbox owner. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message