Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:56:50 -0800 From: "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" <insane@oneinsane.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Leftover qpopper drop files Message-ID: <19981208165650.A3848@oneinsane.net> In-Reply-To: <981209010843.2226A-100000@liquid.tpb.net>; from N on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 01:13:17AM %2B0100 References: <366DABC0.AA545BC5@kawartha.com> <981209010843.2226A-100000@liquid.tpb.net>
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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
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