From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 30 8:12:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF49C14E6A for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from markab (markab [128.130.111.33]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA20274; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:09:51 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:09:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Spidey Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , Rahul Dhesi , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Spidey wrote: > Here my pine is -r-xr-xr-x. > > spidey@freed [10:12am] natd$ ls -al /var/mail > total 202 > drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Feb 25 02:10 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 512 Mar 29 19:16 ../ > -rw-rw---- 1 spidey mail 192431 Mar 30 10:09 spidey > spidey@freed [10:12am] natd$ > > This is ok for me... Is there a problem with that that I don't know of??? http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/sysadmins.html#xtocid634146 (And yes, the previous poster was correct in that I ment to say ``SUID to some special group, like mail in this case''.) Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message