Johannes -- ...and then Johannes Zellner said... % % Hi, % % I've the following permissions ($USER == joze) % % -rw--w---- 1 y1zln mail 508 Feb 7 09:10 /var/mail/joze
That's very interesting... Who is y1zln? % drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 8192 Feb 7 09:09 /var/mail That looks fine. % % I can't change anything at /var/mail as I've no root priviledges. % I found out, that the lock file can't be created in /var/mail and % therefore my mailbox is opened read-only. I've also found a hack % % set dotlock_program="true" What are the permissions of your mutt_dotlock program, and perhaps of your mutt program? Please feed us the output of ls -l `which mutt` `which mutt_dotlock` and mutt -v so that we can see which, if either, of these programs has special permissions and whether mutt was compiled to use external dotlocking or not. % % as mutt checks the return status of the dotlock_program. That's interesting :-) % % My question: is there a 'clean' way, that is for example creating a % lock file in a $USER readable directory ? Probably not; you'd have to tell every other piece of software that uses dotlocking about that new directory in order for it to still be useful. % % -- % Johannes :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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