On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:43:20PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> I am running testing. Recently I bought a new hard disk because I was
> running out of space and copied some old partitions ( /usr and /var )
> using cp -R -d to partitions on the new hard disk. I use exim and
> mutt.
>
> Now I have two problems. 1. After I fetch my mail using fetchmail,
> and view it with mutt, when I press 'D' to delete a message I get
> the message Mailbox is read-only. I have compared the permissions
> ( the mail box is /var/spool/mail/scanagar owned by scanagar,
> group mail, -rw--------) and they seem to be OK. I have the old
> partitions still to compare with. I cannot detect any difference.
scab:/$ ls -l /var/spool/mail/kent
-rw-rw---- 1 kent mail 0 May 16 13:47 /var/spool/mail/kent
>
> The 2nd problem: when I try to access the man pages, I get:
> man: can't set effective uid: operation not permitted.
You should have used "cp -a" to preserve your permissions. It may be
more advantageous to recopy the two directories if you can. Otherwise
your can try to recreate the permissions of those two directories.
kent
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