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Re: "Mailbox is read-only.", but it isn't



On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:48:16PM +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 06:18:11PM +0000, cl@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >Brilliant!  That's the problem, /var/mail is:-
> >   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Oct 16  1999 /var/mail
> 
> Are you sure? This is a symlink, look at the l at the beginning of your 
> line.
> Where does it point to?
> 
I was simplifying, I had noticed it was a symlink and the place it
points at has the same permissions.

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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx)