On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:36:21AM +1100, Murray Maxwell Dancey wrote:
>My system has decided to give me a new error after using
>Mutt simply and easily for 6 months now.
>
>When sending mail, Mutt reports..
>
>"Can't lock /home/murray/Mail/outbox."
>
>The message sends, but it does not get saved in my outbox.
>
>Can someone shed some light on why this may have happened?
Not that it is necessarily your problem at hand, but did some nervous
sysadmin, or config utility (linuxconf), or security proggy (something
doing something with the results of a Tripwire scan) decide it was no
longer a Good Thing to have mutt_dotlock(1) no longer be suid/sgid to
an appropriate UID or GID? Did something change the UID/GID of
/home/murray/Mail? Or the mode bits of same?
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