LIONS2 FAQ UPDATED FOR EMAIL & WEB

If you've used Pine under the original LIONS, you probably have a 'Mail' directory which consists of your old email. Email under LIONS2 has changed and will be unable to use that directory as it stands. What has happened is that under the original LIONS, the 'inbox' folder is a sequential file - under LIONS2, it's a directory. To make sure that you can still receive email, log into a LIONS2 box such as sol-login.lions2.odu.edu and issue the following command:

chk_mailbox

If you see a message similar to the following:

ERROR: /afs/lions.odu.edu/home/m/myhomedir/Mail/inbox is NOT a directory!
ERROR: Please rename /afs/lions.odu.edu/home/m/myhomedir/Mail/inbox and run this script again!

Then you will need to rename your 'Mail' directory to 'Mail.old' and rerun the 'chk_mailbox' script to set up a proper 'Mail' directory. Please see the following page for more information:

http://www.lions.odu.edu:8080/lions/documentation/services/email

Please note that we've fixed some people's inboxes and notified them of what was done.

In addition, if you have web pages which you were maintaining under your old account, to make them viewable under LIONS2 you will need to issue the 'mkpublic_html' command - this will set up the proper permissions to allow the web server to access your pages. Please see the following for more information:

http://www.lions.odu.edu:8080/lions/documentation/services/webserv

We've updated the LIONS2 FAQ to make note of this information. Again, if you've got questions, please let us know at unixhelp@odu.edu.