Re: [TCLUG:13429] Metamail trouble

["Jeff Keacher" <teuobk@ringworld.org>]

I'm guessing you're running Mandrake.  Create a tmp directory in your *home
directory* (as in, /home/joe-linux-user/tmp )

That should do it!

Cheers,
Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 12:51 PM
Subject: [TCLUG:13429] Metamail trouble


> Can anyone help with what should be a pretty trivial question?
>
> I try to run lynx (a fast way to look at html documentation, so I don't
> have to post dumb questions like this one.)  It gives me the error msg
> "metamail:  Can't open temporary file!"
>
> I have checked, and default is supposed to be /tmp, though I'm not really
> sure what it's trying to do.  I checked and permissions on tmp are
> rwxrwxrwt.  I'm not sure if I want the t there, so I tried changing it and
> nothing.  I tried setting the env. var. METAMAIL_TMPDIR, but didn't get
> anything useful.
>
> So, now it's time to admit that I'm not really sure what metamail, called
> by lynx, is looking for.  I've also peeked in mailcap files, but didn't
> see anything easily recognizable as the source of my trouble.  And, while
> I looked in the .mailcap at home and saw some things that Netscape put in
> there, this seems to be a global problem -- i.e., it shouldn't be a user
> .mailcap, though I did learn that metamail logical ands all the mailcap
> files it finds on it's path, rather than taking the last one.
>
> Config files available on request.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Phil M.
>
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> It has real and imaginary components.
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