Axalon wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote:
>
> > Kuraiken wrote:
> > >
> > > Wilhelm Bertalan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > You need to have a "tmp" dir in your home dir, then everything is ok.
> > > >
> > > > willy
> > > >
> > > > Mike Julien wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anybody know how to fix this?
> > > > > When in console mode.. I give the command "lynx" and the response that I
> > > > > get
> > > > > is .. "metmail: cannot open temporary folder"
> > > > > TIA
> > > > >
> > > > > Mike Julien
> > >
> > > Thanks, Willy.
> > >
> > > I was having this same problem...sounds like a bug to me...either the creation
> > > of $HOME/tmp should be handled by the rpm or better yet (maybe?) the real /tmp
> > > be used as tmp. Is there some kind of problem doing it?
> > >
> > > --
> > > --------------------------------------
> > > Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster
> > > --------------------------------------
> >
> > I think you are absolutely right (solution 2 seems to be preferable) and
> > I also believe it should not be too complicated, but I must admit I have
> > no knowledge or experience in producing rpm�s!
> >
> > regards, willy
> >
>
> metamails temp files were moved from /tmp to ~/tmp to remove some minor
> security problems. You only have to create on ~/tmp manualy, (for user
> created at install) it's normaly handled by the user creation scripts, but
> those are available during install.
the point is that this was NOT done by any user creation script. I did
an absolute standard installation and created one user during install,
but when I tried to start lynx I got this error message. Of course it
can be easily solved but some people have problems with it (if you
search the archives, you can easily find some references...)
regards, willy
