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From: Brian Litzinger <brian@mediacity.com>
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Subject: Re: Elm and /var/mail
To: JOHN@gab.unt.edu (John Booth)
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 00:24:11 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <D8FB800966@gab.unt.edu> from "John Booth" at Aug 26, 95 02:03:18 pm
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> 
> This has been bugging me for a while.  I can't get elm to
> work properly w/o making the permissions in /var/mail 777.
> I thought since elm was setgid and that /var/mail had group
> mail and elm was set gid that it would work ok that way...any thoughts
> on this...perhaps I have been compiling it incorrectly?...                               

You could make it 1777, which can cut down on people messing with
each others files a little.

Brian Litzinger
brian@easynet.com