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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: smail-3.1.29.1 cannot lock mailboxes
Date: 6 Jun 1995 14:22:43 -0500
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation
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Message-ID: <3r29u3$9vm@Mars.mcs.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.mcs.com
I'm having troubles with smail-3.1.29.1 I get permission denied
errors when trying to lock the mailbox before appending to it on local
delivery.
My mailbox is empty (doesn't exist before startup) so smail should
create it.
The permissions on my /var/mail directory are 755 bin bin.
The smail binary is root:wheel 4511
C.
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Christopher Sean Hilton E-mail: chilton@mcs.com
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