Re: Removing a mailbox lock on pine
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
>
> > I do not know what caused it and how to rectify it. When I run pine
> > (which normally did not give any problems) suddenly this afternoon there
> > was a message
> >
> > Can't open mailbox lock: Access readonly.
>
> Can you verify the permissions on /tmp are:
> drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 1024 Nov 6 12:21 .
Thank you Brandon. That was the problem. Something that I have done (I
was for most of the day busy experimenting with dump and restore) must
have changed /tmp's permissions.
I corrected it and now it is back to normal.
Johann.
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