From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 17:15:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA17099 for current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:15:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA17094 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:15:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA01653; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:14:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:14:06 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: Terry Lambert , Mark Crispin , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > The question that *really* needs to be addressed is whether > what Mark is stating is correct (right now, I assume he is) in that > other Uinx variants' mail.local programs use .lock files to deal with > locking. Here is a quick survey of the local delivery agents invoked by sendmail on some local machines. The following use .lock files: OSF1 copper V3.2 148 alpha HP-UX ophelia B.10.01 A 9000/819 5611371 two-user license IRIX kalondin 5.3 02091401 IP22 mips ULTRIX nickel 4.4 0 RISC I wasn't able to confirm the local delivery agent for: SunOS cheyenne 5.5.1 Generic_103640-01 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 because sendmail.cf was only readable by root, but judging from the mail(1) man page, I suspect it uses .lock files as well. HP-UX, Solaris, ULTRIX, and IRIX are using 1777 for mail directories while OSF1 is using 777. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================