From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 8 11:29:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca (epsilon.lucida.qc.ca [216.95.146.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E7C837B95E for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:29:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: (qmail 94722 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Aug 2000 18:29:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 18:29:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:29:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Robert Watson Cc: FreeBSD-PORTS , FreeBSD-SECURITY Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Robert Watson wrote: ... : It sounds like a spurious warning from an over-zealous developer that did : not plan for our mail delivery environment. I haven't been using Pine : 4.21, but I think this is a warning that can be safely silenced in the : port, although you probably want to get confirmation from others familiar : with the Pine iand c-client mplementations before going ahead with that. Well from what Rick was saying in our private conversation and what the documents say if you read them carefully, pine uses /var/mail for it's locks. My guess is that it assumes since /var/mail is world writable on most systems it can use it as a temporary directory or something :) At the very least, they could make more intelligent error messages, ie: if /var/mail is world writable and not sticky, report that error, however if /var/mail is not world writable report something like, "/var/mail is not writable to us, lock failure." Either way, it's better than screaming "Your mailbox is vulnerable!" I wonder if anyone would commit that patch if I made it? :) : Robert N M Watson * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5kFFvdMMtMcA1U5ARAvwkAJ9+ByzG3BYunXXeMXIEr1lK2tCC0QCfR6Hn 6/rkkJZOvsNFtH2+NDEVhHQ= =D0Y+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message