Vincent, et al -- ...and then Vincent Lefevre said... % % On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 13:38:56 -0600, Brett H. Williams wrote: % > Now I have a new problem, which is that my mailbox is considered % > read-only. I am just using my spoolfile over NFS. Everything was % > working great before the upgrade. % % I have the same problem when I want to install Mutt. This is probably % because mutt_dotlock can't be executed with sufficient permissions.
Yep. % This is quite annoying. A configure option to prevent it from being % installed would be a good idea IMHO. While I agree that it isn't a bad idea, I don't know that it's a terribly good idea; you can already tell mutt to not use dotlock but that still won't get you anywhere (if I understand correctly, since that simply implies that mutt itself will be installed with special privs) if you don't have permission to lock the mail spool directory, and if you knew in advance to not build mutt_dotlock because you were going to use root's version then you also know enough to just delete your new and unprivileged version after your install. I think, however, that it might be well worth adding some magic in the makefile that says not to install mutt_dotlock if there's another one with privs out there in $PATH and you're not running as root, or to at least say "I'll install mutt_dotlock for you, but it won't work except in your personal tree", because this certainly does come up regularly. % % -- % Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% % validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International % des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. % Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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