Re: [ILUG] mail and RH6.1

From: Raymond Kelly (ray at domain phbrink.ie)
Date: Mon 18 Oct 1999 - 23:00:08 IST

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Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Only thing I changed was using zsh.. otherwise, much a clean install.
>
> Donncha.

add export "MAIL=/var/spool/mail/username" to ~username/.zshrc where
username is the name of the account & all should work, at least it does
here on a fresh fresh RH 6.1 install with the same conditions which you
mentioned

ta
Ray ...

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