From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 18:05:44 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA11969 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 18:05:44 -0700 Received: from lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.7.3]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA11952 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 18:05:28 -0700 Message-Id: <199508270105.SAA11952@freefall.FreeBSD.org> Received: by lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA11144; Sun, 27 Aug 95 08:54:44 +0800 From: Yen-Wei Liu Subject: Re: Elm and /var/mail To: JOHN@gab.unt.edu (John Booth) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 95 8:54:44 EAT Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: ; from "John Booth" at Aug 26, 95 2:03 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > This has been bugging me for a while. I can't get elm to > work properly w/o making the permissions in /var/mail 777. > I thought since elm was setgid and that /var/mail had group > mail and elm was set gid that it would work ok that way...any thoughts > on this...perhaps I have been compiling it incorrectly?... I barely remember : compile it without setgid and the 2nd locking scheme turned on and other locking options turned off. -- Yen-Wei Liu Internet e-mail address:ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ywliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw FAX: +886-2-783-6444