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What does the syslog message: Mailbox lock file /tmp/.600.1df3 open failure: Permission denied mean?

April 26, 2017Denied failure file lock mailbox message permission syslog tmp

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What does the syslog message: Mailbox lock file /tmp/.600.1df3 open failure: Permission denied mean?

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This usually means that some “helpful” security script person has protected /tmp so that it is no longer world-writeable. /tmp must be world-writeable because lots of applications use it for scratch space.