From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 7:18: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC7B37B422 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:17:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13Y7tR-0007Dh-00; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:15:37 +0300 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:15:37 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Fengping Li Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: READ-ONLY mbox! (fwd) Message-ID: <20000910171537.D25543@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Fengping Li , FreeBSD-Questions References: <20000908104700.A7905@studsys.mscs.mu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <20000908104700.A7905@studsys.mscs.mu.edu>; from Fengping Li on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:47:00AM -0500 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 5:12PM up 13 days, 6:02, 1 user, load averages: 0.27, 0.22, 0.18 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Fengping Li : [000908 18:49]: Fengping Li>Hi there, Fengping Li> Fengping Li>Did you resolved your problem? Fengping Li>The following is what I did to resolve this problem: Fengping Li>as root, run: Fengping Li>chown -R user-name /var/mail/user-name My problem was coming after a make buildworld. Someone suggested that it is related to something in mtree which I quite did not understand, but I left it for future investigation. After rebuilding somehow the permissions on /var/mail kept changing and with the assistance of pine (it actually told me what the issue was when I tried it instead of mutt) I had to change the permissions on /var/mail to 1777 Rgds -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 When you see a light at the end of the tunnel, make sure it does not get any brighter. It could just be the headlight of an oncoming train. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message