Re: A few questions for everyone

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

> "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.

I take it back.  You're right.  I didn't realize that my
/var/spool/mail permissions had been changed back (there are too many
system administrators here in my lab :-) to

   drwxrwxrwt   2 root     mail         1024 Feb 11 21:10 ./

Sorry about that.

--Mike