Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 22:48:44 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <MailManager.846830924.19675.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961101014039.16305J-100000@quagmire.ki.net>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
On Fri, 1 Nov 1996 01:42:05 -0500 (EST), Marc G. Fournier wrote: > But, if SVR4 and Linux both set their spools to 775, then how can > .lock files work on them? Unless IMAP is setgid, which, as with setuid, I > believe is a NO-NO. Their religion is to make all mail readers (including IMAP) setgid. > > Some of the SVR4 and Linux guys run it with SGID mail, although > > I discourage them from doing that. > > > Will that trigger the error message, or quiet it? If it runs setgid, it won't trigger any error message, it'll just work.home | help
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?MailManager.846830924.19675.mrc>