From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 14 09:16:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA17349 for current-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 09:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veda.is (ubiq.veda.is [193.4.230.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA17344 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 09:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA01269; Wed, 14 May 1997 16:36:13 GMT Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:36:13 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199705141636.QAA01269@veda.is> To: asami@vader.CS.BErkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_2_2 Newsgroups: list.freebsd.current References: <3493.863438208@time.cdrom.com> <199705122308.QAA22656@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > * > 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