Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:31:51 +0100 From: Burhan Nazir <burhan@blueyonder.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /var/mail permissions after make world Message-ID: <20020412123151.GA78399@swansea.cableinet.net>
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FreeBSD swansea.cableinet.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Thu Apr 11 16:35:47 BST 2002 bnazir@swansea.cableinet.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/SWANSEA i386 I recently recompiled the world from 4.4-RELEASE to 4-STABLE. Everything went well. However, I have noticed a peculiarity with the permissions of my /var/mail directory. Before upgrading to 4-STABLE, the permission status of /var/mail was: drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Apr 12 12:58 mail/ and my user mail file under /var/mail: -rw------- 1 bnazir wheel 12347918 Apr 12 12:58 bnazir When I rebuilt the world, the permission status of both remained the same. But whenever I try and read my mail using mutt, I can no longer modify (ie add/delete mail) using /var/mail/bnazir as my inbox. I have to chmod 777 /var/mail to be able to modify my /var/mail/bnazir. This was never the case before. I guess I could just leave it like that, but it irritates me not knowing why this happened after a build world. I was wondering if anyone here had come across a similar problem. Any help most appreciated. -Burhan -- FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE | http://www.freebsd.org 1:16PM up 19:33, 8 users, load averages: 2.67, 2.71, 1.48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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