Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!emory!gatech!prism!scott From: scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: gnu emacs rmail and rs 6000's??? Message-ID: <21804@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 11 Feb 91 22:17:51 GMT References: Distribution: na Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 21 In article hudgens@sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens) writes: > >Anyone have any problems with this combination??? > >The following message appears when invoking rmail in xemacs on a rs6000. > > movemail: permission denied for temporary file "/usr/spool/mail/EJCICrx" > well, not on the IBM, but I have had the exact same problem on other systems. My solution was simply to change the permits on movemail - make it setuid or setgid, or whatever is needed to give it write permits in /usr/spool/mail. Under AIX, making it owned by bin.mail and setgid should do the job. - Scott -- This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Scott Holt Internet: scott@prism.gatech.edu Georgia Tech UUCP: ..!gatech!prism!scott Office of Information Technology, Technical Services