Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 03:25:37 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.961031032126.19202A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961029182821.10981C-100000@quagmire.ki.net>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Now, Terry mentions mail readers such as ELM, which, from the > last time I configured/installed it a couple of years ago, actually > gives you a choice of 3 locking methods, none of which are forced > upon you...'.lock' being one of the three, and I think fcntl/flock were > the other two... I now remember why BSDI changed their /var/mail permissions ... ls -ld /var/mail drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Oct 19 1995 /var/mail ll `which elm` -r-x--s--x 1 bin mail 233472 Apr 26 1995 /usr/contrib/bin/elm There was some kind of problem with elm at the time and mail gid thing fixed it. Regards, Mike Hancock
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