From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 14 10:58:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA17853 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.clever.net (qmailr@[208.5.0.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA17843 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 0); 14 Aug 1996 18:11:53 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 14:11:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Sam Brown To: Raymond Richmond cc: bsdi-users@bsdi.com, hackers@freebsd.org To: Undisclosed recipients: ; Subject: Re: Popper errors. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Did you umask 000 and use the preserve ownership of the dir and its files? Sounds like the perms on the file are wrong. Best check it out. rm .*.pop if nothing else , but also check the ownership/group/perms on the dir itself. On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Raymond Richmond wrote: > Recently we moved our mail from the var partition to a new > one to accomodate our space needs. After the move a great many of our > users recieve the following error. > > Aug 10 06:30:59 cronus popper[12883]: -ERR Unable to copy mail spool file > to temp pop dropbox /var/mail/.username.pop > > Any ideas? The mail was moved with a tar preserving user info. > > -- > > __^__ __^__ > ( ___ )------------------------------------------------------( ___ ) > | / |---Raymond Richmond---Question Man-------(403)430-0811 -| \ | > | / |---------OA Internet----------Technical Support---------| \ | > |_*_| |_*_| > (_____)----------------richmond@oanet.com--------------------(_____) > > >