Am Do, den 24.06.2004 schrieb Hongwei Li um 19:47: > We have a fc1 on a new dell pc, 3GHz, 1GB ram. Suddenly, in a few minutes > ago, people cannot access email from any pop3 mail tools: outlook, > squirrelmail, etc. Only pine can work, but also shows warning: > > Can't lock for write: /tmp must have 1777 protection > > then, it shows: Folder vulnerable: directory /var/spool/mail must have > 1777 protection. It's a locking problem. Do you have concurrent POP3 connections? You use the uw-imapd, right? > I did not change anything after fc1 is installed a few weeks ago. Should > I change the permission of /tmp and /var/spool/mail? How to do it? Any > other things I must do? Check that you did not accidentally change the /tmp folder permissions. They must look this way: $ ls -ld /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 20 root root 8232 24. Jun 19:51 /tmp/ And the mail spool directory this: $ ls -ld /var/spool/mail/ drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 4096 24. Jun 18:24 /var/spool/mail/ > Hongwei Li Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.6.6-1.435 Serendipity 19:56:44 up 1 day, 18:34, load average: 0.40, 0.52, 0.42
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