Subject: I've broken my mailboxes...

From: Chris Mayes <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:15:27 -0400 (EDT)

This isn't a pine-specific problem, really, but noone seems to know on the
Linux lists, so here goes.  In a nutshell, my problem is that all of my
user-level mailboxes are seen as "locked" when I use pine.  Every other
editor has a similar problem.  In addition, when I su to another account,
pine (and others) will still try to access the original accounts mailbox.
It's very strange.
	Now, just how did I manage to screw up my system so badly?  Here's
what I did.  I was having disk space problems while compiling in my /home
directory, and instead of lookng at the obvious place for the problem
(/home is full), I saw a /temp flash by, and assumed that it was the root
/temp.  So, I wiped the directory, thinking that it held nothing
important, anyway.  
	Of course, the real problem was that /home was full, and my
purgation did nothing for the compile.  However, when I tried my mailbox,
it was locked.  I went to each of my accounts, and they were all locked.
Root was still okay, of course.  Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any
idea how I could go about fixing this.  I am running SuSE 5.2 Linux with
the 2.0.33 kernel.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

						-Chris  

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From: Vinnie Chassot <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:42:46 -0700 (PDT)

check your permissions on /var/spool/mail and check disk space on whatever
disk that that directory resides on..

Vinnie

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learn the things I could never apply" -- Least Complicated

On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Chris Mayes wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:15:27 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Chris Mayes <[email-masked]>
> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: I've broken my mailboxes...
>