From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 12:51:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13787 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:51:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13776 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:51:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA09525; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:48:57 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:48:56 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Jerry cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine inbox "Read Only" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Everything in excess, moderation is for monks!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message