Rob Browning wrote: > > Just for comparison (user names changed to protect the innocent :>) > > 501$ ls -al /var/spool/mail > total 59 > drwxrwsr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Nov 26 06:50 . > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 .. > -rw------- 1 user1 mail 0 Nov 28 1995 user1 > -rw------- 1 user2 mail 0 Nov 21 01:43 user2 > -rw------- 1 root mail 56691 Nov 26 06:50 root > > # ls -al /var/spool/mqueue > total 2 > drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Nov 26 15:58 . > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 .. > #
I set the permissions to those you have, but I get this message approxamately 5 min after doing "echo test | mail lars" at any given terminal: bash$ cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied I guess the program send-mail is trying to do this. Also, I ran gnus as root, and got this message after trying to get my mail: Reading active file from lars_mail via nnml... nnml: Reading incoming mail... Getting mail from /root/.gnus-crash-box... Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted.) Should I just give up and reinstall, or is this fixable? (I'd rather fix it, but I'm afraid I have no hope) Thanks again -lars -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GU>CS>AT dpu s-:- a--->? C+++ UL++++>U++++ P+>? L+++ E>+ W+ N++ o? K? w-->--- O! M-- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP- t--- 5-- X-- R- tv-->! b+/++>+++ DI+ D+ G>++ e- h! !r !z+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]