> On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 02:28:13PM +0100, Donncha O Caoimh gave forth on:
> > Will someone with a stock RH6.1 box try run "mail" as a normal user
> > please?
> > I just got a "permission denied" error. There's no mail file in
> > /var/spool/mail/ for me but I tried sending mail as well and got the
> > same error.
Check the permissions on /var/spool/mail itself:
avalon:~$ ls -ld /var/spool/mail
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Oct 18 21:31 /var/spool/mail
avalon:~$
This is on a RH5.2 box. I remember many times having to fix
the owner and permissions on this directory on older Red Hat
releases.
Later,
Kenn
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