I'm seeing this too. Lets say I have a user called jeff. If I'm logged in as root, running archivemail -o /home/jeff/archive /var/mail/jeff fails with the permission denied error. The archivemail manpage says that when archivemail runs as root, the first thing it does is setuid to the owner of the mailbox it's operating on. If that' the case, then it explains the fail ure since jeff doesn't have permission to write to /var/mail, which is needed in order to create the mbox lock.
-- "Permission Denied" when archiving from /var/mail directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
