On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:41:51PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> > I changed it to 755 and I still get read-only
> > permission on /var/spool/mail/vdanen which has
> > -rw-rw---- permissions and is owned by vdanen.mail.
>
> The important thing are the permissions of the
> /var/spool/mail _directory_, not of the _file_ in that
> directory
>
> Dotlocking will create a file /var/spool/mail/vdanen.lock.
> In order to do this, mutt_dotlock needs write access to
> that directory, which is normally enabled by making
> mutt_dotlock setgid mail.
Ok, but the permissions seem to be fine for that directory... I
really don't understand this:
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 265 May 26 16:28 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 357 Mar 13 10:53 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 116 Jun 1 04:42 anacron/
drwx------ 3 daemon daemon 76 May 26 16:11 at/
drwx------ 2 root root 35 Apr 10 11:42 cron/
drwxrwxr-x 3 root daemon 77 May 26 23:20 lpd/
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 77 Jun 20 14:59 mail/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 35 Jun 20 15:20 mqueue/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Apr 13 11:37 rwho/
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 35 Apr 5 09:59 samba/
drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 35 May 2 02:12 squid/
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp root 35 Apr 3 03:51 uucp/
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp root 35 Apr 3 03:51 uucppublic/
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