From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 25 18:06:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11940 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:06:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fir.calcasieu.com (fir.calcasieu.com [209.99.46.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11930 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:06:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sysop@austin.calcasieu.com) Received: from oak.austin.calcasieu.com (oak.austin.calcasieu.com [192.168.170.7]) by fir.calcasieu.com (8.8.8/8.8.8-2.0) with SMTP id UAA22366; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:05:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from cruft by oak.austin.calcasieu.com with SMTP id AA15930 for jerryr@ComCAT.COM; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:05:33 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981125200533.007c73e0@mail> X-Sender: sysop@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:05:33 -0600 To: Jonathan Chen , , From: Don Read Subject: Re: inbox READ ONLY/not sending Cc: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG back on 12:52 PM 11/26/98 +1300, you said: >On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Jerry wrote: > >> > >> > pine needs to have write permission on /var/mail. /var/mail should >> > have gid=mail, so pine needs to be install setgid=mail as well. >> >> This makes sense the pine needs write permission but where is this done >> at?? > >To do this: > chown bin:mail /usr/local/bin/pine > chmod g+s /usr/local/bin/pine > But pine should have rw permissions under the users login, something more is happening here. try ls -l /usr/bin/mail* /usr/sbin/sendmail I get: fir.dread:$ ls -l /usr/bin/mail* /usr/sbin/sendmail -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 69632 Nov 24 1996 /usr/bin/mail -r-sr-xr-x 5 root kmem 294912 May 12 1998 /usr/bin/mailq -r-sr-xr-x 5 root kmem 294912 May 12 1998 /usr/sbin/sendmail fir.dread:$ Regards, -- Don Read sysop@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX - Ya jes' mash that button, rite jher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message