Re: [bug-mailutils] Troubleshooting mailutils

[Hiran Chaudhuri]

Sergey Poznyakoff schrieb:
> Hiran Chaudhuri <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
>   
> > I was not member in the group mail. This is now fixed. I can create
> > and delete other files in that directory now.
> >     
>
> In other words, "> /var/spool/mail/foo" succeeds, doesn't it?
>   
I did not know this is a valid command. But yes, it shows the same 
result as
touch /var/spool/mail/foo

Of course I do this as user hiran without sudo... ;-)
> > Still I get the same message:
> >
> > Error expunging:609: Input/output error
> >     
>
> Strange. Just in case, are there enough free space on the device that
> hosts /var/mail? It should have at least 8M available.
>   
I'm sure there is plenty of room left.

address@hidden:/var/spool/mail$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              4127076   1358060   2559372  35% /
varrun                  387748       188    387560   1% /var/run
varlock                 387748         0    387748   0% /var/lock
udev                    387748        72    387676   1% /dev
devshm                  387748         0    387748   0% /dev/shm
address@hidden:/var/spool/mail$

So it is not access rights, it is not disk space. What next?

Hiran