From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 11 18:38:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09858 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:38:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marvin.ece.utexas.edu (marvin.ece.utexas.edu [128.83.52.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09851 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:38:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bgrayson@marvin.ece.utexas.edu) Received: (from bgrayson@localhost) by marvin.ece.utexas.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28908 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:37:50 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19981111203750.B28874@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:37:50 -0600 From: "Brian C. Grayson" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /var/mail mode changed??? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did an install of FreeBSD today, and it clobbered permissions on our NFS-mounted /var/mail (changed the group to 6, which doesn't map to anything on our other machines, and changed permissions from 01777 to 0775). Is there any way of controlling whether or not the install should do this? It's a bit disconcerting, as after the change mutt is not able to read mail without overriding dotlocking, which might confuse the average user. I realize 01777 isn't the safest setting, but it works for us on our collection of operating systems and mail clients and daemons. Maybe the install could prompt if it saw an existing /var/mail that was NFS-mounted??? TIA Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message