hudgens@sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens) (02/12/91)
[[[ posted initially to comp.emacs. This comp.unix.aix may have been
more appropriate...]]]
Anyone have any problems with this combination???
The following message appears when invoking rmail in xemacs on a rs6000.
movemail: permission denied for temporary file "/usr/spool/mail/EJCICrx"
The easy solution is to change permissions of /usr/spool/mail. I
hesitate to do that since the permissions are so different from other
machines, that it might be opening up some sort of security hole.
Has anyone dealt with this in a sane way?
We're running 18.56, which is otherwise almost perfect on these
machines.
Thanks for any info.
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Disclaimer: I didn't do it.
Jim Hudgens Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.eduscott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) (02/12/91)
In article <HUDGENS.91Feb11162844@ds1.sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU> hudgens@sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens) writes: > >Anyone have any problems with this combination??? > >The following message appears when invoking rmail in xemacs on a rs6000. > > movemail: permission denied for temporary file "/usr/spool/mail/EJCICrx" > well, not on the IBM, but I have had the exact same problem on other systems. My solution was simply to change the permits on movemail - make it setuid or setgid, or whatever is needed to give it write permits in /usr/spool/mail. Under AIX, making it owned by bin.mail and setgid should do the job. - Scott -- This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Scott Holt Internet: scott@prism.gatech.edu Georgia Tech UUCP: ..!gatech!prism!scott Office of Information Technology, Technical Services