nmh and mail spool permissions

["Kevin M. Bealer" <kmb203@psu.edu>]

I installed the "nmh" program, and almost everything seems to work
now, except that the program "inc" hangs, or at least hangs around for
a while and then dies.

After looking at the "strace" I see it is trying to create lockfiles
in /var/spool/mail/ which is forbidden by the permission bits.  It
works fine if I make the permissions so that anyone can write to the
directory.  That is, anyone can delete/create anyone's mail file.

It seems like this should not be -- what is the correct permissions
for /var/spool/mail?

Thanks,

--kmb203@psu.edu----------------Debian/GNU--1.3---Linux--2.0.30---
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to devise and apply Turing tests to objects of its own creation.
		-- Lew Mammel, Jr.


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