On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Walter Tautz wrote:
>
> > open("/var/spool/mail/<myhostname>.cf86b",
> > O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_EXCL|O_SYNC, 0) = -1 EACCES
> > (Permission denied)
> > setgid(1000) = 0
> > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
> > write(2, "Unable to lock mailbox: Permissi"..., 42Unable to lock mailbox:
> > Permission denied
> >
> > ls -l /var/spool/mail
> > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Mar 30 11:13 ./
>
I should point out this occurs because I have root mail sent to myself. The mail
is coming from the cron process so perhaps it is locking things but not
releasing it
once it has delivered mail?
