Re: error writing mail file

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On 03 Aug 2001 18:58:03 -0700 "G.Lee Johnson" <lee imyourhandiman com>
imparted to us:

> 
> > As root:
> > 
> > touch /var/spool/mail/<username>
> > chown mail.<username> /var/spool/mail/<username>
> > 
> > I've done this a few times. Somebody in my house, and I won't name
> them so I
> > don't have to be embarassed, keeps getting dumb and doing just such
> things.
> 
> 
> I tried this but nadda...I got no errors or anything I simply still
> can't delete email.....I did it from /home/spiritwind and /root.

What permissions are on /var/spool/mail:

$ ls -l /var/spool
...
drwxrwxr-x	2  root  mail     4096  Feb 6 1996 mail
...

The only thing I can't explain here is the year. But, it works.

-- 
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