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Date:      Wed, 14 May 1997 16:36:13 GMT
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        asami@vader.CS.BErkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_2_2
Message-ID:  <199705141636.QAA01269@veda.is>
References:  <3493.863438208@time.cdrom.com> <199705122308.QAA22656@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>

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> * > 1) Add mail to /etc/group so mtree can update /var/mail.
> * 
> * Yeah, that was my change.  Unfortunately, I couldn't think of any but

>Did we all agree that this was the way to go?  My observation seems to
>be that the majority opinion was not to use group (mail)-writable
>/var/mail....

Whatever eventual conclusion is reached on the issues, there is nothing to be
lost by changing group ownership from bin to mail. This is then one less thing
to change when a site moves from one kind of mailspool to another.

--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>



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