Re: A few questions for everyone

[deisher@enws125.eas.asu.edu (Michael E. Deisher)]

> That is what *I* thought.  Then I decided to stop putting my large
> foot in my mouth and tried it, Emacs rmail did not work. :(
>
> "Renaming: permisssion denied, /var/spool/mail/jimr, /var/spool/mail/jimr+"
> 
> So it tried to rename the mail file while it copied it and failed,
> meaning that it needs to get write access to /var/spool/mail.  I don't
> know why it works on solaris, the permissions look the same.

Hmm... it works fine for me.  Did you correct the ownerships on all
the existing mail files in /var/spool/mail (i.e., chown them all to
group "mail")?  Have you been using the modified adduser script to
create new accounts?

I got the same error message you did before I made the changes.

--Mike