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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!agate!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: receiving mail Date: 8 Aug 1996 21:15:24 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4udldc$57h@overload.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov I had a problem on receiving mail by FreeBSD which mounts /var/mail from a Sun workstation. mail.local complains: "Permission denied". ----- Transcript of session follows ----- mail.local: /var/mail/jin: Permission denied 554 <jin@pentium-1.lbl.gov>... Service unavailable % ll /var/mail/jin -rw------- 1 jin staff 837289 Aug 8 13:49 /var/mail/jin % cat >> /var/mail/jin writing is OK. If the /var/mail is a local disk, everything is OK. So, it looks like FreeBSD cannot use mounted partition for receiving mail. Is this true? Thanks for any information. -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |