----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Jackson
This is certainly a permissions problem.
Can someone tell me the permissions of:
/var/spool/ and everything underneath this.
** DON'T BE STUPID AND MOVE YOUR HOME DIRECTORY AND VAR AND THEN SYMLINK THEM! **
To recap:
1. I INSTALLED A NEW IDE HARD DRIVE 2. I MOVED VAR AND HOME TO THE MOUNT POINT OF THIS (/usr3) 3. I SYMLINKED TO THE RELEVANT DIRECTORIES 4. DOING THIS HAS LOST ALL PERMISSIONS (root.root) 5. WHEN I RUN ELM I GET 7 RETRY MESSAGES ON READING MAIL (WAITING FOR DELIVERY)
I CAN READ ROOTS EMAIL UNDER ELM - very understandable. I CAN'T ON ANY OTHER USER
I even created a user, and tried to look at the settings but the same problem occured.
I only have 1 Linux machine at my disposal here in work - and I never thought of checking at home.
Please can someone help?
Kev
Why are you shouting? The user has to have read/write premission on his mail file. Under /var/spool/mail do a `chown user user` where the second user, is that users mail file then you probably want the premissions 600 on all mail files, so `chmod 600 /var/spool/mail/*`
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Jackson [mailto:kevin.jackson@jhallpr.demon.co.uk] Sent: 29 March 2000 17:02 To: SuSE Linux List (E-mail) Subject: [SLE] Procmail
I have made some changes... :o)
I put a new hard drive in... and moved "home" and "var" over to it. Guess what? I didn't do it in single user mode - and I think I'm going to regret it.
I now can't access my own email (using elm and Outlook across the network) but I can access roots email using elm.
The console log tells me:
procmail[416]: Renamed bogus "/var/spool/mail/jackk" into "/var/spool/mail/BOGUS.jackk.ZC"
For some strange reason I reckon it has something to do with my yearn for extra disk space! :o)
Can anyone shed any light! Is it a permissions problem?
I think I've got a lead on this already - my Samba share to my home area comes up with permission denied... !
Kev
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