From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 13:24:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17715 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:24:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17569 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:24:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA00790; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:24:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:23:53 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Jerry cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine inbox "Read Only" 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 I believe PINE needs to be able to create a {inbox}.pine.lock file in the mail spool area. On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jerry wrote: > I think I'm having a problem with pine, I went to the pine news group but > it doesn't look like its the most popular place on the net for help. > > Anytime a user opens mail their inbox is "read only" except root. The > permissions are right on /var/mail/"user" -rw------- in fact as a > regular user I can goto that file open it and modify it with no problem?? > > I've tried uninstalling pine and reinstalling, no change. I also upgraded > to sendmail 8.9.0 I don't know if that matters. and I'm using > FreeBSD 2.2.5-R. > > Thanks > Jerry > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Network Administrator BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message