Just do a "mkdir ~/tmp" and it works.
Jean-Michel
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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 23:53:02 +0200
> From: Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] lynx error with M6 reported
>
> Hi!
>
> Wayne Larmon has told me about an error with the Lynx version shipped with
> M6 which seems to have occurred with several people.
>
> Lynx refuses to start with the error message:
>
> metamail: Can't open temporary file
>
> Installing an older version of lynx (lynx-ssl-2.8.2-32) removed that
> problem.
>
> I asked Wayne to send me an output of 'ls -l metamail' since I mean to
> remember that metamail has to run setuid root. It doesn't.
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41756 May 11 09:18
>
> But running the M6 version of Lynx as root didn't solve the problem, so
> there might be something else involved here.
>
> Has anybody here encountered that error or is able to reproduce it (I
> *still* haven't received my copy...)? Anyone at M an idea what may cause
> this?
>
> Regards
>
> tom
>
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