From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 22:16:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBFF15205 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 22:16:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imsleepy@earthlink.net) Received: from dialup-209.244.74.106.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (dialup-209.244.74.106.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [209.244.74.106]) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA01505 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 22:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 22:16:08 -0700 (PDT) From: imsleepy X-Sender: imsleepy@muffin.fshcrkr.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pine error - pine starts readonly 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 On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, imsleepy wrote: > [Mailbox is open by another process, access is readonly] > > i get the above whenever i start pine as any use other than root, but i > know i dont have any other processes of pine running. even after i > reboot, login, and type 'pine' it starts up with > [Mailbox is open by another process, access is readonly] > > any ideas? > > -scott > heh, i figured out what it was. / was fulling up a lot for me because /tmp kept getting big, so i changed /tmp to a symlink to /var/tmp, and i guess it got root permissions, so pine couldn't use it or something. for the time being i did 'chmod a+rw /tmp' and 'chmod a+rw /var/tmp'. is that correct? im not really fond of having some gapeing hole in on my computer because of me not setting the attributes correctly. also, what permissions should /var have? thanks and sorry -scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message