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Date:      Thu, 13 Apr 1995 15:07:51 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Scott Mace <smace@metal-mail.neosoft.com>
To:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        mmead@goof.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /var/mail
Message-ID:  <199504132107.PAA00503@metal.ops.neosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <9504131607.AA08853@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 13, 95 12:07:01 pm

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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'.

or not use .dot-locking at all...> 

	Scott



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