gnu emacs rmail and rs 6000's???
Scott Holt
scott at prism.gatech.EDU
Tue Feb 12 09:17:51 AEST 1991
In article <HUDGENS.91Feb11162844 at ds1.sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU> hudgens at sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens) writes:
>
>Anyone have any problems with this combination???
>
>The following message appears when invoking rmail in xemacs on a rs6000.
>
> movemail: permission denied for temporary file "/usr/spool/mail/EJCICrx"
>
well, not on the IBM, but I have had the exact same problem on other
systems. My solution was simply to change the permits on movemail -
make it setuid or setgid, or whatever is needed to give it write
permits in /usr/spool/mail. Under AIX, making it owned by bin.mail
and setgid should do the job.
- Scott
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