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From: fletcher@techcenter.paccar.com (Arlen Fletcher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: mail doesn't work on my 2.0.5 machine???
Date: 25 Oct 1995 04:58:32 GMT
Organization: PACCAR Technical Center
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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?
BTW, /usr/libexec/mail.local works just fine to create
new messages... writes the /var/mail/username file as it
should. And sendmail works 'cause /etc/daily & friends
use it for cron reports to root.
I'm stumped. Help!
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