topic mail problem in Operating System - HP-UX

mail problem

Luca Frigatti — Mon, 13 May 2002 12:58:58 GMT

Hi All!!
I've the following problem.
I create a user on my server HP-UX (version 10.20) after I delete it (it was an error!!!)
When I try to connect or to execute the su command I've got on terminal the following error message :
mail:permission denied.

Have you any suggest to solve my problem?

Thanks in advance for your help and your support.

Luca

Re: mail problem

Sanjay_6 — Mon, 13 May 2002 13:03:31 GMT

Hi Luca,

Can you go into a little more detail.

Regds
Sanjay

Re: mail problem

S.K. Chan — Mon, 13 May 2002 13:28:41 GMT

Usually the "user" mailbox permission or ownership is not right. Check it ..
/var/mail/
permission should be 660 (owned by "username" , group ownership is "mail")

Re: mail problem

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Mon, 13 May 2002 13:30:49 GMT

Well... I guess you have recreated that user again...

The .profile file should run mail to advice the exitence of mail for that user, but the user-id do not macth the previous user-id, so the mailbox cant be opened.

Check it:

ll /var/mail/username -> it must show a numeric value for owner.

Just do a chown or delete the /var/mail file for user.

Re: mail problem

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Mon, 13 May 2002 13:57:35 GMT

Hi Luca

As a standard part of the suer removal , the OS alos deletes its mail box. In /etc/profile is the subroutine which checks for the mail .

If the command doenst work for that user then may be there is a problem in the mail file . You can just go and delte the file under /var/mail and you should be good to go , or id ther /usr/bin/mail command is not working for that user.

Manoj Srivastava