From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 13 21:19:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA19619 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA19614 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00992; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:19:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Paul Dekkers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMAP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Doug White wrote: > > >> I have a question about IMAP; I installed the IMAP port from the port > >> collection on my FreeBSD 2.2.1 CD, but after compiling I get an error > >> using pine in combination with IMAP. I get the following error message: > >> '{gromit.nev.ml.org}INBOX : Error creating /var/mail/paul.lock.87341562.18.19g' > >> > >> What can I do against it? I got the same message using Linux btw... > >> Please CC the reply to me, I'm not subscribed to the list... > > > >Make sure that /var/mail has perms 775. > > but in that case the owner has to be GID users or smth so that people with > GID users can create lockfiles? > but I don't want to let them put trash to it, is that possible? now they > can write over there... :-( Oh, the other part of it is make it owned by bin:bin. drwxrwxr-x 2 bin bin 512 May 20 14:31 mail/ This way sendmail et.al. can write stuff in there, but run as someone other than bin, such as a user. But not just anyone can dump stuff in there. I made that change after the IMAP problem; they had some suggestions for setting up /var/mail perms for best results. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo