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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 12:07:01 -0400
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com>
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<<On Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:21:32 -0400 (EDT), "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> said:

>     /var/mail should be owner bin, group bin, permissions 775, so that packages
> like elm can write dot-lock files in /var/mail.

NO!!!!!!!

If you make /var/mail group writable, it should be writable by group
`mail', NOT by group `bin'.

-GAWollman

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