Essein, thanks for answering.
I have tried to set my single (first) non-root user part of *all* groups,
but it didn't help. I guess it's probably not a question of the users
group. (I've since reset this user to the mail group.)
Do you have /bin/mail installed yourself? (From the mailx package) If so,
what are the owners and permissions on your /bin/mail ?
Biker
"Essien Ita
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21-07-2003
12:45
Please respond
to gentoo-user
If this doesn't happen to root, then its obviously permissions related.
Maybe the users should belong to a particular group or something like that.
Speaking NON-AUTHORITATIVELY, i would say, figure out any groups related to
the mailing application on you box. Find out what happens if you add a user
to one of the groups.
Also its complaining about not having any child processes, i'm thinking
that
this group thingy is preventing /bin/mail from starting any child processes
its trying to start. I'm almost certain that it is group related, but hey
this is a NON-AUTHORITATIVE analysis.
I hope it helps some.
Essien
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Subject: [gentoo-user] mail failing to remove the lock file
When a normal user quits /bin/mail, the mail application fails to remove
the mail lock file with the error message:
# mail: Cannot remove lockfile /var/mail/gus.lock: No child processes
The same user can (and must) then manually remove the lockfile from
/var/mail/gus.lock
This doesn't happen for root.
What should I look for?
Biker
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