The log messages have nothing to do with pine. When I installed F1, I did not install pine and was still getting those messages. Changing permissions on /var/spool/mail solved it. Quoting Hongwei Li <hongwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Alexander, > > Yes, I did cahnged the permission on /tmp: > > # chmod 1777 /tmp > > but never touched /var/spool/mail's permission. Since > then, I pay > attention to all warning message and found this one. The > pine package was > download, pine.tar.gz for Unix system, pine4.58. I > downloaded pine for > RH9, but it does not work. Most users use SquirrelMail > and EMUMail, some > users use Outlook Express and NetscapeMail, a few people > still like pine > (that is why I downloaded and installed it). We had a > problem when /tmp > had wrong permission. Thanks for your help, after I > change the > permission, these mail tools work normally. But, I see > this warning > message in system log, LogWatch to the root, and when > trying a test > account's pine. > > Should I remove the pine? Will that make the warning not > showing? > > Thanks! > > Hongwei > > > Am Mo, den 28.06.2004 schrieb Olga um 16:04: > > > >> /var/spool/mail should have the following permissions: > >> drwxrwxrwt (it should have the sticky bit set). > > > > No, the default permissions are proper! > > > > Hongwei, we had exactly that topic on Thursday last > week and I explained > > it to you. So what did you change and how do you use > mail? Which pine > > (source or packager and version) do you use? How else > do users read > > mail? Are the log entries caused by users using pine > and a different > > mail client same time? > > > > 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 16:12:01 up 1 day, 17:59, load average: > 0.48, 0.56, 0.61 > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
