Rafael -- ...and then Rafael C. Gawenda said... % % Quoting David T-G (Wed Apr 10 14:10:19 CEST 2002) % % > Are you using the stock mutt that you've had all along, or did you % > just breed a new mutt? In the latter case, whether you chose to use % > mutt_dotlock or have mutt do the locking itself, does the proper binary % > have the permissions to do so? % % The problem showed up after setting a new debian 2.2r5 with separate % partitions for /usr /home and /var
Interesting. Separate partitions shouldn't matter, and a fresh system should have everything right but I suppose it might not. % % > Show us what % % Sorry for haven't done that before 0:-) No problem :-) % Just made a backup, and installed Debian package for woody (1.3.28i) Hmmm... So does that mean you're working with the mutt that had the problem or a different mutt? And, if the latter, do you still have the problem? % % > mutt -v % > ls -lF `which mutt` `which mutt_dotlock` % % -v details attached (was that a bad idea?) Not IMHO. % Previosly: % -rwxr-xr-x 1 rgawenda rgawenda 1447035 Apr 10 07:55 /usr/bin/mutt* % -rwxr-sr-x 1 rgawenda mail 7108 Feb 17 2000 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock* % Current: % -rwxr-xr-x 1 rgawenda rgawenda 523660 Mar 19 20:50 /usr/bin/mutt* % -rwxr-sr-x 1 rgawenda mail 7248 Mar 19 20:50 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock* Hokay; those both look good. % % rgawenda is UID,GID=0 Whoa -- rgawenda is your root user? % mail user is: uid=1000(ais) gid=1000(ais) groups=1000(ais) Interesting, but I suppose that will do. What's the difference between group mail listed above and group ais listed here, though? So what are the permissions on your spool directory (be that /var/spool/mail or $HOME or elsewhere) and spoolfile? % % > give you. In addition, when you're in mutt, does the top line have a % > percent in up in the left corner? When you toggle-write (bound by % > default to '%'), do you get the message that changes will and won't be % > written, or does the percent sign silently stay up there? % % I'm using no help line, and bottom status line, which shows no '%' sign % visible, unless I hit it one time (which tells me that mode changed to % rean-only (ie. hanges will not be written, or so). Hokay; that's good. If you can turn read-only back off then that part is all fine. % % > % msg is still there (instead of being moved to +mbox), and marked as New... % > % Has somebody seen a similar behaviour? % % > Yes -- when mutt_dotlock can't lock your mailbox. % % I've just tried (by hand) locking a mbox, and mutt complains and reads it % RO, after prompting to remove locks, or RW if I let it remove the locks. OK; that's good. Now what about your spool mailbox, if that's the one about which we're talking? % % If I enter the mbox, read, force a sync ($), and quit, it does update. Um, OK. Now I'm confused again. I thought you said that sync didn't work. Maybe you should outline the difficulty for me again... % % -- % Rafael C. Gawenda, rgawenda/at/pobox/dot/com % 2:348/610@fidonet; GnuPG key: 0x5C4839A5; Registered LiNUX User #93375 % Life's unfair - but root password helps! (BOFH?) :-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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