From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 8 16:56:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08255 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:56:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from the.oneinsane.net (the.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08250 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:56:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from insane@the.oneinsane.net) Received: (from insane@localhost) by the.oneinsane.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA04020 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:56:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19981208165650.A3848@oneinsane.net> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:56:50 -0800 From: "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Leftover qpopper drop files Reply-To: insane@oneinsane.net References: <366DABC0.AA545BC5@kawartha.com> <981209010843.2226A-100000@liquid.tpb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <981209010843.2226A-100000@liquid.tpb.net>; from N on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 01:13:17AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD the.oneinsane.net 2.2.8-STABLE X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-PGP-KEY: http://www.oneinsane.net/~insane/insane-pgp5i.txt Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If I am not mistaken when you do a rmuser it removes those files.. The question is what version of FreeBSD are you using? TTFN Ron On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 01:13:17AM +0100, N wrote: > Quoth Paul Stewart: > > > All our users have a .pop file here but none of them get any errors... > > is this unique or the way it's supposed to be? :) > > Did you actually read his problem description? > > Quoth Mike Harshbarger: > > | I've ran qpopper 2.53 on both systems. Qpopper creates a temporary drop > | file named /var/mail/.username.pop. On Solaris, this file was deleted > | after use. They hang around in FreeBSD. If a new customer happens to pick > | the same username as a old, deleted account, they'll get this error when > | they try to pop their mail: > | -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it? > > Keyword is "new customer" - this implies "new/different userid" which > means qpopper cannot (after having done a setuid() to the target user) > open the temporary drop box since it's owned by another userid (one that > isn't even present in /etc/passwd [anymore]). > > It could have something to do with SERVER_MODE. Was it defined on the > Solaris x86 version during compile time? > > As far as I know Solaris doesn't do any cleansing of temporary > directories, except that all contents of /tmp are lost after a reboot. > > > -- Niels. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was null and void ------------------------------------------------------------------- It's so nice to be insane, nobody asks you to explain. [----------------------------System Info---------------------------] 4:55PM up 6 days, 23:14, 7 users, load averages: 0.81, 0.83, 0.70 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message