At 04:08 PM 05/22/2000 +0200, you wrote:
> /var/spool/exim/messaglog: > 2000-05-21 22:27:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > local_delivery transport deferred: Permission denied: creating lock file > hitching post /var/spool/mail/admin.lock.alpha.cs.mum.edu.3928a93a.00000ac9 > i had a similar problem. is solved it with "chmod 3777 /var/mail". this is possibly not very clean, but it works.
-- yes, my /var/spool/mail is 755, root mail so mail could have trouble writing it, I'll chmod g+w it and see what happens. I wonder how such permissions got installed wrong? -------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125 Fax: -1103 --------------------------------------------------------