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Re: Mailbox locking

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Subject: Re: Mailbox locking

From: Darren Cook <darrenj@example.com>

Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:20:24 +0900

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>     Darren> When I type "mail", then "q", I always get
>     Darren>  "Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied"
> 
> check that the mail program is sgid mail.

It was root:root, so I did:
  chown root:mail mail
  chmod g+s mail

And now it works. Thanks!

Darren
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