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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Elm does not like me :( Date: 27 Jan 1996 20:49:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4ee34q$np9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4e34av$fin@tzlink.j51.com> <DLquJI.E9L@news.zippo.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13238 comp.mail.elm:18515 cdemps@lsumc.edu (root) writes: > 1. wrong permissions (should be 2755) > 2. wrong owner of the elm binary. > 3. wrong group of the elm binary (should be the same as your mailboxes > group) > 4. wrong locking style for your system > 5. wrong permissions of /var/spool/mail (should be 775) All this is NOT recommedable. See Ollivier's reply for a better approach. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)