Re: Trouble with /var/spool/mail/????

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] XFMail.980317105423.pright@lanl.gov>,
Paul Rightley <pright@lanl.gov> wrote:
>This morning, I cannot get xfmail to open
>/var/spool/mail/user saying that it cannot lock the file.
>I figure the problem results from the movement of /var.

Make sure /var/spool/mail has the following permissions:

$ ll -d /var/spool/mail 
drwxrwsr-t   2 root     mail         1024 Mar 17 18:15 /var/spool/mail/

Mike.
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