On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:13:22AM +0300, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Hal MacArgle wrote: > > Greetings: Just installed Slack8.0 (2.2.19) on a fresh HD, restoring > > backed up user files only from original working HD, that was Slack7.1 > > (2.2.16). Simple setup using A AP and N groups only.. > > > > Everything working fine except one that baffles me: > > > > Using Mutt and Metamail, default distribution packages, I can't save > > a jpeg attachment to a file, in order to view it.. The report is: > > "fopen: Permission denied (errno=13" > > > > I checked and compared the file permissions on all the files I could > > think of, plus checked for the libraries, and see no difference > > between this machine and another similar machine that saves the files > > correctly... I have some books on C but I can't find what errno 13 > > is. > > [anteater@neutrino anteater]$ grep 13 /usr/include/asm/errno.h > #define EACCES 13 /* Permission denied */ > #define EHOSTUNREACH 113 /* No route to host */ > > Check for *directory* permissions, too. > > Elias > Greetings and Appreciate!!.. Problem solved and I learned a lot more in the process..
I double checked all the directory permissions but neglected to check the ownership of the mail file.. Wonder why it worked with regular mail but metamail balked? A little knowledge is a dangerous thing??? Somehow that got by me - so we're now in business as usual.. Thanks for the prodding. Cheers, Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.13) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] A M$ free environment . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs