Making spool directory 01777 in order to get email

[Karl Goetz]

Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
>
> How do I go about making my /var/spool/mail directory mode 01777? For 
> some reason, after downloading email this morning, I started getting an 
> error message with Thunderbird saying it couldn't create a ~.lock file 
> in /var/spool/mail, and that on some systems movemail wanted the 
> directory in mode 01777. This looks like too many digits for chmod to 
> handle,
sudo chmod 1777 /var/mail will do the job, afaik
iirc there's actually 6 bits that can be set with chmod, only 3 are 
'normally' used, and hte 4 is used in special circumstances.
kk
>  so I suspect something else is required. And, if anyone has any 
> insights, why would this change on a digital whim? I was able to 
> download my first morning batch of email with no trouble...
>
> With best regards,
>
> Pete
>   


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