adduser and permissions

["Carr, Daryl B." <DARYL@monm.edu>]

Hello,
I'm new to this list and to Debian Linux.
When I add a user with 'adduser', there seems to be a permission
problem. This manifests itself in various ways. Two significant ways
are:
  1) calling the 'mail' program I get the response:
         "Bad address"
  2) calling the 'man' program I get the response
         man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or
directory

Thanks for any help.
Daryl Carr
Monmouth College
Monmouth, IL 61462
daryl@monm.edu


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