You may need to change the permissions on /var/mail. I had to do this to get fetchmail to work, because it wouldn't create my inbox.
On 3/26/02 10:53, "Paul S. Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I installed nmh-1.0.4-1 from unstable, and I gather we are supposed to > give feedback when we try something, so here is what I found... > > nmh compiled and installed just fine. "comp" also works just fine. > But, I get this error when trying "inc": > > mcxr2 : 208>inc > inc: unable to lock and fopen /var/mail/paulr > > Here is my /var/mail: > > mcxr2 : 214>ll /var/mail > total 8 > drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 58 Mar 21 16:53 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 18 root unknown 568 Mar 21 16:23 ../ > -rw------- 1 paulr mail 674 Mar 21 16:53 paulr > > Does anyone know what is causing this error message or how to work > around it? > > One other suggestion as wel: Since sendmail isn't working by default on OS > X, it would be good to put some comment in "fink info nmh" about how > to enable sendmail so that MH can work. > Here is one such reference: > http://www.kung-foo.tv/xtips.shtml#15 > and this pair is good too: > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/01/22/terminal_pt2.html > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/02/26/terminal_three.html > > Cheers, > > -- Paul Ray > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
