From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85393 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: movemail failing .. apparently permission issue Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 16:05:20 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <874msovhm7.fsf@reader.local.lan> References: <87bnmzduoa.fsf@reader.local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419196011 6754 80.91.229.3 (21 Dec 2014 21:06:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:06:51 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33635@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Dec 21 22:06:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2ni6-0006O2-Ph for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:06:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2nhH-00084Y-L2; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:05:51 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2nhE-00084F-NI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:05:48 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2nh4-0007KZ-2X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:05:48 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2nh2-0001TT-2t for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:05:36 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2nh0-0005dG-4S for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:05:34 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([76.97.127.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:05:34 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:05:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 58 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XwAdU+AvI6fXSPA/Es6xs1mMEhw= X-Spam-Score: -0.4 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85393 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: Attempting to give a little clearer picture of my situation. Some of this repeats an earlier post but hopefully a bit more clear. Setup: Very new install of Gentoo linux GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2014-12-20 on gv (Built from git sources) (Installed thru gentoo manager (emerge/portage) emacs-vcs) When starting gnus: I get a failure of movemail being unable to access some part of the setup. Apparently either /var/spool/mail or ~/spool (from *Messages* buffer) ,---- | Reading incoming mail from directory... | Processing mail from ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box... | Reading incoming mail from file... | movemail: Permission denied for /var/spool/mail/harry (1 return). Continue? (y or n) n | Mail source (file :path /var/spool/mail/harry) error (Permission | denied for /var/spool/mail/harry). Continue? (y or n) n | Mail source (file :path /var/spool/mail/harry) failed: (error Cannot get new mail) `---- Apparently above is not considered an error since setting debug-on-error does not produce a backtrace. ls -ld /var/spool/mail drwxr-xr-x 2 mail root 4096 Dec 19 13:30 /var/spool/mail ls -l /var/spool/mail/ total 4 -rw------- 1 harry nfsu 716 Dec 19 13:30 harry ls -ld /home/harry/spool drwxr-xr-x 2 harry nfsu 4096 Dec 17 18:56 /home/harry/spool ls -l /usr/libexec/emacs/25.0.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ total 80 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9552 Dec 20 21:13 hexl -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22016 Dec 20 21:13 movemail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5412 Dec 20 21:13 profile -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21067 Dec 20 21:13 rcs2log -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9636 Dec 20 21:13 update-game-score What need to change here: I did try setting movemail like: mail:root instead of root:root Tried setting /var/spool/mail setuid root and setgid with no change in gnus output about movemail.