From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 31 23:34:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA27660 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 23:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA27639 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 23:34:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by quagmire.ki.net (8.8.2/8.7.5) with SMTP id CAA20039; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 02:33:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 02:33:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Mark Crispin cc: Nate Williams , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Mark Crispin wrote: > 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. > Well, I think you just gave me my solution...and after how many email passing back and forth? :( Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org