Re: lynx-dev metamail: Can't open temporary file

[T.E.Dickey]

> On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 address@hidden wrote: 
>  
> > Strange situation, and I've seen it on 3 machines now: 
> >  
> > Install Linux Mandrake 6.0 or RedHat 6.0 
> >  
> > log in 
> >  
> > type "lynx" hit return 
> >  
> > get "metamail: Can't open temporary file!" 
> >  
> > So, lynx is broken from the start! If I install / reinstall a lynx.rpm, it 
> > doesn't help. 
> >  
> > Any ideas? 
>  
> See <http://home.knUUt.de/tom.be/venus.html#Lynx>. 

So that says (in effect) that someone forgot to make $HOME/tmp to
accommodate Mandrake.  (iirc, our policy on that is that Lynx doesn't make
the temp-directory, but simply ensures that its permissions are
appropriately restricted).
  
>    Klaus 

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