>>
>> {soback.kornet.nm.kr}inbox : Error creating /var/mail/fredfl2.lock.925434=
1]
>>
>> I =A7keep getting this message when I try to check my mail with pine 4.05=
=2E
>> It proceeds to get the mail after displaying this message and after I hit
>> return on the keyboard.  Is there any way to get rid of this message?
>> Did any one get a similar message when using pine?
>>
>> Guy
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> Guy Santiglia  Quadra 610, NetBSD 1.3.3!
>> South Korea
>> ____________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>This is pine attempting to make its lockfile for the inbox.  My guess would=
 be
>that your permissions in /var/mail are wrong, and pine cannot create the fi=
le.
>I personally don't think that /var/mail is quite the right place for these
>lock
>files, odds are there is in option you can set in pine to have it place the
>lockfiles elsewhere, like in /var/lock/pine or something else that you crea=
te.
>
>William Carrel, IIcx, IIcx, Quadra 610, NetBSD 1.3.3

The same thing happened to me.  It was worse since I changed a user from
'guest' to 'wheel' permissions and not even vi would work.  I ended up
changing all of wheel's files to *7*.

Grant Stockly, IIci