On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 05:39:21PM +0100, Bill Purvis wrote:
> On 20/05/2023 17:29, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 08:14:45AM -0700,capercally.bleery670@??? wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 08:12:22AM -0700,capercally.bleery670@??? wrote:
> > >
> > > Following up to myself, sorry :P
> > >
> > > > > > -rw------- 1 hendrik mail 102495117 May 20 08:06 hendrik
> > > > > > and for the old var/mail, it tells me
> > > > > > -rw------- 1 hendrik mail 102369929 May 20 07:34 /oldvarmail/hendrik
> > > It's also worth doing a ls -a, because lock file names may start with "."
> > >
> > hendrik@april:~$ ls /var/mail -ald
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 20 12:20 /var/mail
> > You have mail in /var/mail/hendrik
> > hendrik@april:~$ ls /var/mail -al
> > total 100900
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 20 12:20 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Jun 5 2014 ..
> > -rw------- 1 geoffrey mail 873 Jan 21 2011 geoffrey
> > ---------- 1 root mail 0 Jun 21 2006 hal
> > -rw------- 1 hendrik mail 103257365 May 20 12:20 hendrik
> > -rw------- 1 list mail 39887 May 1 05:00 list
> > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 2012 lost+found
> > -rw------- 1 nobody mail 501 Jul 2 2015 nobody
> > hendrik@april:~$ mount | grep /var/mail
> > /dev/mapper/VG--3T-var--mail on /var/mail type ext4 (rw,relatime)
> > hendrik@april:~$
> >
> >
> > > --
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> My guess is you need group mail write access on the mount point.
Yes, indeed.
comparing it with the old directory on the old partition
reveals this difference. Also the 's' bit on the directory.
I had not seen these subtle discrepancies before. I am a bit
surprised at needing permissions on the directory whe I already
have read/write permissions on the file, which I own...
Correction done by doing
chmod g+ws /var/mail
and now it works properly.
Thanks to everyone that helped me track down the problem.
-- hendrik
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