Michael Beattie wrote:
>
> On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On 7 Jun, Michael Beattie wrote:
> >
> > > btw: Pine can only open my mailbox readonly after hamm upgrade. what
> > > gives?
> >
> >
> > Check your permissions on /tmp. Most mail readers use tmp to store a
> > copy of the mail file and if it can't write to tmp then it can't modify
> > your mail spool and hence makes it read only.
> >
> > drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 6144 Jun 6 14:07 /tmp/
> >
> > If this is not how it is do a 'chmod 1777 /tmp' as root.
>
> Thanks! I got it before, but whats the 't'?? (all execute bit) typo, or
> what is it?
>
> Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
't' is a special mode permission. It indicates the use of the swap
device
for the item in question (I assume setting a dir to 't' says that all files
created in that dir are to be cached on the swap device). See info on File
Permissions.
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Ed
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