/tmp/maXXXXX litter (mail problem with Ultrix 3.0)
Steve D. Miller
steve at fnord.umiacs.umd.edu
Sat Sep 9 02:00:13 AEST 1989
Let's ask a silly question here: do you have world read permissions
turned off on /dev/kmem? I had a similar problem when closing up kmem
permissions, and it turns out that Ultrix does some sort of really strange
(and broken) locking on mail files... and the locking is load-dependent.
If it can't get at /dev/kmem, /bin/mail loses.
There's a whole pile of MH commands that have similar problems.
-Steve
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