Re: [cobalt-users] raq2 - mail - system error, can't open temporary file. Do ...

[David Liu <dyliu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

nope - i already "df"'d and it's fine.

turns out it was with permissions of the var directory. somehow, the 
sysreset reset the perms of this??

At 07:34 PM 5/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
> In a message dated 5/10/01 3:49:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> dyliu@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>
> > seems to have worked (meaning that the sites are fine), though when i try
> > retrieving mail via pop3 in eudora, i get the following error:
> > "system error, can't open temporary file. Do you own it?"
> >
> > also on a side note, when i su to another user while logged in as root or
> > someuser, i get the error "while opening UTMP file: Permission denied"
>
>
> Sound to me like a disk space issue.  Make sure that the disk space allotted
> to the user in question is at least twice as big as his email file in
> /home/spool/mail.