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Date:      Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:00:14 -0400
From:      Joe Altman <fj@panix.com>
To:        Mike Maltese <mike@pcmedx.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting the sticky bit on /var/mail...
Message-ID:  <20031008040013.GA14912@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c38d4b$fcfd53f0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com>
References:  <20031008031656.GA1318@panix.com> <000d01c38d4b$fcfd53f0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com>

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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:26:40PM -0700, Mike Maltese wrote:
> This may not be correct, but my first instinct would be to check for a flag
> on the directory, i.e., 'ls -lo /var | grep mail'.

Absolutely you are correct, and the crowd goes wild with
applause...thank you.

I suppose it would be nice to know what set all of the following on
/var/mail:

opaque nodump uappnd uchg uunlnk

because it sure wasn't me.

Removing them allowed me to set the appropriate bit. Thanks again.




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