Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 07:32:26 -0500 (CDT) From: john@starfire.mn.org To: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) Subject: Any msgs users? Message-ID: <199508041232.HAA02537@starfire.mn.org>
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Since I have been an over-user of /etc/motd, I thought I'd check out using msgs for our system. Out of the box, it could not create files in /var/msgs -- it is still not clear to me whether the directory should be suid someone or if it should be public read/write (the program does an setuid(getuid()) making a simple suid bit ineffective). It also seems to fail to recognize "Subject" lines in mail, and it doesn't strip headers, making mailed messages somewhat unwieldy. For the moment, I have put the original permissions back and am using "msgs -s" directly from a root command prompt to create new messages. If there are other msgs users out there (or wanna-be msgs users), I'll look at adapting, expanding, and improving msgs for our mutual benefit, otherwise I'll probably get along with the status quo for now... John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417
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