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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!cuhknntp!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: mail doesn't work on my 2.0.5 machine??? Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands - The Daemon is Free! - Message-ID: <DH2nu0.CJ@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <46kg5o$5mr@ender.techcenter.paccar.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 20:05:58 GMT Lines: 18 fletcher@techcenter.paccar.com (Arlen Fletcher) writes: >Having a devil of a time getting /usr/bin/mail to write >any messages to disk. It'll read mail for a user if the >/var/mail/username file exists, but it won't create it for >new mail and it's not logging why. What permissions do I >need on the /var/mail directory? On my system: WKB /local/home/wilko>ls -ld /var/mail drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 512 Oct 17 23:00 /var/mail This is an out of the box install, so I suppose it is OK. All mail works OK. Wilko