Subject: Error creating lock file

From: Magnus Frostlid <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:42:27 +0100 (MET)

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I have a problem with Pine trying to create a lock file in /var/spool/mail
on my system. That directory is not world writable. If it was everyone
could delete eachothers mailboxes.

I get this error message when I start pine:
Error creating /var/spool/mail/magnus.lock.888917712.51.herman.telia.se

I tried to select the line in setup that should prevent this type of
messages but it doesn't help. 

How come Pine tries something like that, when almost all system has no
world write access to the /var/spool/mail directory. How can I make pine
not trying to put a lock file there? How can I make the error message
dissapare?

Thanx
   Magnus Frostlid
   [email-masked]
   http://come.to/magnus