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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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