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On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Hiram Lester, Jr. wrote:
Topic 1: Locking folders
[...] I believe this has to do with the fact
that it's trying to create the lock file in a directory (/usr/mail) that I
don't have write privileges in. I'm using Pine 3.93 (which I also have my
own copy of) and I'm not sure what it does to lock the INBOX since it also
shouldn't be able to write in that directory. Is there a way to either
get it not to lock or a way to get it to work the same way Pine is?
On `my' system, /usr/mail is owned by user bin, group mail, and group
mail has write privileges. You could try changing procmail to group mail
and setting the set group id (sgid) bit.
Look at the privileges for the pine binary, and set the ones for procmail
accordingly.
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Guy Geens <guy(_dot_)geens(_at_)elis(_dot_)rug(_dot_)ac(_dot_)be>: Ph.D.
student at ELIS -- TFCG / IMEC
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To me, a computer scientist is somebody who has a way of thinking, which
resonates with computer programming. [...] These people discovered each
other at the time computers were born. There's a profile of different
intellectual capabilities which makes somebody resonate, which makes
somebody really in tune with computer programming.
-- D. E. Knuth. Dr. Dobbs Journal (April 1996)
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