Re: Mail problems
On 4 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> "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
OK.. Here's fstab
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hdc4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc2 /usr ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hdc3 /var ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hdc1 /var/lib/dpkg ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 ro 0 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
Here's permissions on /var and /usr
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Jan 1 21:56 usr/
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 1024 Nov 9 23:45 var/
Permissions on /var
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 5 06:46 backups/
drwxr-xr-x 14 man root 1024 Jan 4 06:49 catman/
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Jan 4 20:53 lib/
drwxr-sr-x 3 root staff 1024 Nov 4 07:28 local/
drwxr-xr-t 3 root root 1024 Jan 5 17:04 lock/
drwxr-sr-x 8 root adm 3072 Jan 5 16:58 log/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jan 3 17:30 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 27 21:57 named/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jan 5 17:06 run/
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Jan 4 20:53 spool/
drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 1024 Jan 5 06:42 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root www-data 1024 Dec 31 13:27 www/
Permissions on spool
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 10 1997 anacron/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root www-data 1024 Apr 8 1997 apache/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 13 09:35 bwnfs/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Jan 4 20:53 cron/
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 2048 Jan 5 06:42 dwww/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jan 4 20:31 fax/
drwxr-xr-x 4 lp lp 1024 Nov 4 08:00 lpd/
drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 1024 Jan 5 17:40 mail/
drwxr-sr-x 24 news news 1024 Jan 1 23:44 news/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 13 09:35 pcnfs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 13 09:35 rwho/
drwxr-sr-x 6 mail root 1024 Jan 5 06:46 smail/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Nov 4 08:03 texmf/
drwxr-sr-x 3 mail root 1024 Jan 4 20:53 uumaps/
Permissions on mail.
-rw-r----- 1 john mail 233515 Jan 5 17:59 john
-rw-r----- 1 root mail 0 Jan 3 19:44 root
-rw-r----- 1 zzjboggo mail 63608 Jan 5 06:48 zzjboggo
I'm using fetchmail to retrieve mail from my server and cucipop to send it
to my windows machine on my local network. My local mda is smail.
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