Re: [TCLUG:13429] Metamail trouble

[Ben Lutgens <blutgens@usinternet.com>]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 09:46:35PM -0600, Jeff Keacher wrote:
>I'm guessing you're running Mandrake.  Create a tmp directory in your *home
>directory* (as in, /home/joe-linux-user/tmp )

Maybe try a echo $TMPDIR to see what it's set to. Or set it to $HOME/tmp and
make a $HOME/tmp dir.

>
>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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>>
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