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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