Re: [cobalt-users] Deleting username.lock files

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:17:50PM -0400, Steven Werby wrote:
> Jay Jil <jayjil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > rm: remove `lindac.lock', overriding mode 0600? y
> > rm: lindac.lock: Permission denied
> > [admin@www mail]$
> 
> Are the files owned by root?  If so you'll need to do "su -" to 
> become root and enter the admin password at the prompt.

What matters is the permissions of the /var/spool/mail directory.
You can delete a file w/o having write access to it, so long as
you have write access to the directory since you're modifying the
contents of the directory not the file itself insofar as the UNIX
permission model is concerned.

But w/ RedHat & Cobalt's permission schemes I think 
/var/spool/mail -> /home/spool/mail is owned by root
and the group 'mail'...so the suggestion to su to root
still holds ;-).

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Robert G. Fisher                  Sitestar.net, Inc. 
Senior System Engineer            (540) 666-9533 x 116