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Re: Mail problems



"John" <John.B@uq.net.au> writes:

> The new drive is divided into 4 partitions. one is unused, one is mounted
> under /var, the next is mounted under /usr and the last is swap.
> 
> ERR Error locking your mailbox.
> 
> And the following error in my /var/log/mail.log file
> 
> Jan  4 13:51:13 dragon cucipop[1346]: Error opening john's mailbox
> 
> Mail in my box is not deleted after I pick it up with the result that I end
> up with multiple copies of the same message.
> 
> My guess is it's something to do with permissions.
> 
So what are the permissions of /usr, /var and /tmp ? ls -ld /usr /var /tmp
Also show us your /etc/fstab , please.

Ciao,
	Martin


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