Paul wrote: > > > What are the permissions and group/ownership of /var/spool/mail? > > > > I have drwxrwsr -x root mail > > > > Anthony > > > > -- > > Thanks for your help. These are the permissions, they don`t look that > similar, has the install of mutt changed something it shouldn`t have > done? > > $ ls -l /var/spool/mail > total 416 > -rw-rw---- 1 paul mail 422603 Oct 23 12:16 paul > > $ ls -l /var/spool/mail/paul > -rw-rw---- 1 paul mail 422603 Oct 23 12:16 > /var/spool/mail/paul > > Paul
I think I might have cocked up that last message,try this: $ ls -l /var/spool/ total 6 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Jul 25 21:21 cron drwxr-x--- 5 mail mail 1024 Sep 19 19:41 exim drwxrwx--- 2 root dialout 1024 May 2 1998 fax drwxrwsr-x 3 lp lp 1024 Jul 25 21:22 lpd drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Oct 23 12:16 mail drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 13 1999 rwho Like I said, a bit of a newbie! -- Paul Walton *Powered by* Cambridge *Debian GNU Linux* U.K. *http://www.debian.org*
