fc1 email does not work?

Hongwei Li hongwei at morpheus.wustl.edu
Thu Jun 24 18:32:01 UTC 2004


I just changed the mode of /tmp from drwxrwxr-x to drwxrwxrwx, and it is
working now.  The /var/spoll/mail has drwxrwxr-x

I am surprised that the default setting of fc1 on /tmp is wrong.  I
created the partition /tmp during the installation, and never changed it
after then.

Thanks a lot!

Hongwei

> Am Do, den 24.06.2004 schrieb Hongwei Li um 19:47:
>
>> We have a fc1 on a new dell pc, 3GHz, 1GB ram.  Suddenly, in a few
>> minutes
>> ago, people cannot access email from any pop3 mail tools: outlook,
>> squirrelmail, etc.  Only pine can work, but also shows warning:
>>
>> Can't lock for write: /tmp must have 1777 protection
>>
>> then, it shows:  Folder vulnerable: directory /var/spool/mail must have
>> 1777 protection.
>
> It's a locking problem. Do you have concurrent POP3 connections? You use
> the uw-imapd, right?
>
>> I did not change anything after fc1 is installed a few weeks ago.
>> Should
>> I change the permission of /tmp and /var/spool/mail?  How to do it?  Any
>> other things I must do?
>
> Check that you did not accidentally change the /tmp folder permissions.
> They must look this way:
>
> $ ls -ld /tmp/
> drwxrwxrwt  20 root root 8232 24. Jun 19:51 /tmp/
>
> And the mail spool directory this:
>
> $ ls -ld /var/spool/mail/
> drwxrwxr-x  3 root mail 4096 24. Jun 18:24 /var/spool/mail/
>
>> Hongwei Li
>
> Alexander
>
>
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