On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:00:42AM -0800 or thereabouts, David Alban wrote:
> Conor,
>
> At 2000/12/10/05:21 +0000 Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Silly thought, but permissions? On the "Mail" directory perhaps. Anything
> > to do with the ncurses library being in user space.
>
> Thanks, but I don't experience the problem with 0.95.4, to which I
> still have access. Just with 1.2.5.
>
> On the other hand, maybe this makes a difference: the 0.95.4
> installation is a system installation and, this being my friend's
> machine, my upgrade is a user installation (--prefix=$HOME).
>
> The perms on my version 1.2.5 executables in $HOME/bin are:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 alban alban 29812 Dec 10 01:22 mutt_dotlock
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 alban alban 77639 Dec 10 01:22 pgpring
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 alban alban 274 Dec 10 01:22 pgpewrap
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 alban alban 6702 Dec 10 01:22 muttbug
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 alban alban 1181061 Dec 10 01:22 mutt
>
> Do I need any setuid or setgid perms for a user install?
Dunno but the manpage for mutt_dotlock says;
HISTORY
dotlock is part of the Mutt mail user agent package. It has been
created to avoid running mutt with group mail privileges.
This kinda suggests that mutt itself shouldn't need any special permissions
but that maybe mutt_dotlock does. It mentions something about running with
group mail privileges also. Maybe try symlinking $HOME/bin/mutt_dotlock to
the version in /usr/bin if it exists.
The above is just thoughts bouncing around in my skull. If it breaks, you
get to keep the bits...
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Conor Daly
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