Re: [Evolution] lock failed...



Hey, I listened and have never once said that we shouldn't have an
external movemail program :-)

Jeff



No thats bullshit, mail dir permissions of 1777 are perfectly safe
on multiuser systems.

But some systems are a bit anal about "security" and make it 
setgid mail, and some require setuid root permissions to set .locks.

Anyway, I said eons ago we should have an external movemail progra
but nobody listened.


The reason this failed as a normal user is because it doesn't have the
required permissions to create a file in /var/spool/mail/

We are aware of this problem and we will probably need to write an external
movemail program that can be set setuid (you wouldn't want evolution to be
setuid ;-)

A temp fix is to give your user access to create files there, but for a
multiuser system I wouldn't suggest it

Jeff

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Frank Ramsay wrote:
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:12:40 -0400
To: evolution helixcode com
From: Frank Ramsay <fjr marsdome penguinpowered com>
Subject: [Evolution] lock failed...


I just downloaded the preview 2 of evolution and it looks pretty good,
but when
I try and check my mail with it I get the following error:

Unable to move mail:
Could not create lock file for /var/spool/mail/fjr: Permission denied

This is a user account.  I also tried this using root and it worked fine.
Has anyone else had this problem?  How do you get it to work for a user
account.

                          -fjr

 -- 
Frank J. Ramsay
fjr marsdome penguinpowered com


_______________________________________________
evolution maillist  -  evolution helixcode com
http://lists.helixcode.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
-- 
Spruce: it's envrionmentally friendly


_______________________________________________
evolution maillist  -  evolution helixcode com
http://lists.helixcode.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution



_______________________________________________
evolution maillist  -  evolution helixcode com
http://lists.helixcode.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution





[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index]