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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgiblab!pacbell.com!ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM!smui From: smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Pine problems Date: 12 Jul 1994 17:15:36 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Lines: 34 Message-ID: <2vuj3o$fnr@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM> References: <2vs75a$1n6@keltia.frmug.fr.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pomo.kn.pacbell.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net) wrote: : In article <2vqn7o$2tn@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM>, : Sherman Mui <smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM> wrote: : > over and over. Mail to an alias to root also work. My friend told me to : > check the permissions on the spool directories and mail dirs. Well, they : > look alright, rw for owner and group. : If your mailer is not setgid-mail and your spool directory is not 775 like : that : : drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 512 Jul 11 21:03 /var/mail/ : Then no one except root can write in it. Either you put your spool : directory with 1777 (BAD !) or you change Pine to behave with a setgid bit : to mail. : But maybe Pine won't allow that (I don't run it) so you'll have to check : Pine sources and READMEs. Ok, I just made all those changes (had to make a 'mail' group). I don't think it's working... Oh well, time to go through those docs again. Thanks, Sherman -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherman | Mui | moooster| @thetech| .com | smui@kn | .pacbell| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | .com | | Wise | men | learn | more | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- from | fools, | than | fools | from | the | wise. | ----------------------------------------------------------------------