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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 22:05:49 +0100
From: Richard Smith <rdls@rdls.net>
To: Pablo Quintana <quintana@netsys.hn>
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Subject: Re: Mail files owned by other users
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On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:37:53PM -0500, Pablo Quintana wrote:
> I just installed 4.2 R and the mail files in /var/mail are owned by random 
> users

Could these files have existed before? Perhaps your user's uids have been changed.

Rich.


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