On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:41:59AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > % > % 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?
well, actually that's me. Just substitute y1zln with joze. That was a mistake in my original post. > % 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` I compiled mutt from CVS (state from approx 4. Feb) myself. I can't install it as suid root naturally as I don't have root access. -- Johannes
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