From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 1 15:30:31 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA22579 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 15:30:31 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA22573 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 15:30:30 -0700 Received: by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.16) via UUCP id AA12413 ; Fri, 1 Sep 95 18:30:23 -0400 Received: (from jan@localhost) by bagend.atl.ga.us (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA22590; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 18:23:05 -0400 From: Jan Isley Message-Id: <199509012223.SAA22590@bagend.atl.ga.us> Subject: Re: Elm and /var/mail To: JOHN@gab.unt.edu (John Booth) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 18:23:04 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Booth" at Aug 26, 95 02:03:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 460 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk John Booth wrote: > This has been bugging me for a while. I can't get elm to > work properly w/o making the permissions in /var/mail 777. > I thought since elm was setgid and that /var/mail had group > mail and elm was set gid that it would work ok that way...any thoughts > on this...perhaps I have been compiling it incorrectly?... Elm works fine for my with /var/mail and elm at 755. I will mail you a copy of my config.sh