[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Bonser) writes: > Hmmm, I seem to have the same problems even after NOT moving anything. I made > a mistake and ended up downloading several things from unstable and after > that elm cannot read mail and tkmail cannot write lock files in > /var/spool/mail. I too have tried everything that I know of as far as > permissions go to no avail. > > Any help here would be really nice. Pine seems to work fine, BTW. > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Pitts) writes: > > > > --f2P==9pricKk5mwQ > > > > I managed to totally mess up my mail spools while moving my Debian > > system to anothe hard drive. Several other things were also messed
The perms on /var/spool/mail should be: frodo:~$ ls -la /var/spool/mail total 2 drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 1024 Nov 2 19:56 ./ drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1024 Oct 18 01:34 ../ -rw-rw---- 1 andy mail 0 Nov 2 19:59 andy Anything else will cause problems. Andy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
