=->>
=->> Yes, I suggest you subscribe to the announce-list at redhat,
however:
=->
=->wow, pretty arrogant. i *do* subscribe to the announce-list; i've
done so
=->since it was created.
Yes, and since he has subscribed and obviously reads all threads, he
must have forgot the two others who also pasted it was broken.
=->in the meantime, i've figured out a little more. if i 'strace mail'
and
=->then try to delete my messages, i see that mail(1) is trying to
create a
=->lockfile in /var/spool/mail (called something like
=->/var/spool/mail/.man.dynatec.com.63f8d). of course it fails, since
users
=->don't have permission to write stuff like that into /var/spool/mail.
=->
=->question: is there an environment variable that can re-direct
mail(1) to
=->write its lock files someplace else? the man page doesn't seem to
=->indicate so, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
=->
=->informal poll: does anybody use mail(1)?
=->
=->-matt
Matt: I'm using it. Well trying too. I found that if you do mail -f
/var/spool/mail/userfile that it works but I would prefer a cleaner
solution, too.
Anybody? Make that anybody who has it working with all current updates?
Scott
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