From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 30 10:10:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4811517C for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:10:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id KAA49184; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19990330101011.A49146@nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:10:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Rahul Dhesi , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199903301412.AA21609@bolero-x.rahul.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903301412.AA21609@bolero-x.rahul.net>; from Rahul Dhesi on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 06:12:56AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This came as a bit of a shock: > > 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable > > As a result, users can no longer properly read their mail. UTSL. Looking at /usr/mtree/BSD.var.dist: /set type=dir uname=root gname=wheel mode=0755 log .. mail gname=mail mode=0775 which has been this way since 1997/05/03 (rev 1.26.2.2). -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message