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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm 2.3 and SCO unix
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.024112.16857@DSI.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 90 02:41:12 GMT
References: <1990Dec07.011151.18320@jpradley.jpr.com>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>A user other than root trying to use elm to mail to another local user
>invariably fails, the message being:

>	submit: [ Permission denied ] Can't create text file to be queued
>	submit: message submission aborted
Ah yes, the usual SCO permissions all wrong problem.
Run the MMDF checkout script and you will find that the
directories have the wrong permissions as shipped by SCO.  Fix that
and it will work.

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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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