Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:48:56 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Jerry <jerryr@ComCAT.COM> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine inbox "Read Only" Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.96.981201094655.24349H-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9811301536310.2702-100000@uw>
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jerry wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jerry wrote:
> >
> > > I think I'm having a problem with pine, I went to the pine news group but
> > > it doesn't look like its the most popular place on the net for help.
> > >
> > > Anytime a user opens mail their inbox is "read only" except root. The
> > > permissions are right on /var/mail/"user" -rw------- in fact as a
> > > regular user I can goto that file open it and modify it with no problem??
> >
> > Pine requires write permission on /var/mail for a user. To do this,
> > it's usually installed with setgid=mail (ie the owner of /var/mail)
>
> I understand what your saying how pine needs write permissions, but do I
> run that at the command line (setgid=mail)?? I understand how I go about
> giving it to pine.
Assuming that pine lives in /usr/local/bin:
chgrp mail /usr/local/bin/pine
chmod g+s /usr/local/bin/pine
Jonathan Chen
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