tlug: False alarm: Pine is suddenly flocked

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

    Stephen> I recently upgraded my Debian system, and suddenly Pine
    Stephen> stopped being able to delete messages from folders (or
    Stephen> add them to others).  Pine claims they're "read-only".
    Stephen> This isn't true at the mode level; I'm guessing it's a
    Stephen> file-locking problem.  Root has no such problem, only
    Stephen> ordinary users.

root obviously has a memory problem, though, because somewhere along
the way a directory owned by root:root got chmod'd to 0644.  Namely,
/tmp.  Sheesh.

(Go ahead, giggle.)

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