From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 16 02:38:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16293 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chunga.apana.org.au (chunga.apana.org.au [202.12.89.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16288 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:38:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davo@chunga.apana.org.au) Received: (from davo@localhost) by chunga.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09457; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:06:58 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from davo) From: Dave Edwards Message-Id: <199807160936.TAA09457@chunga.apana.org.au> Subject: Re: Popper 2.52 In-Reply-To: <19980716022551.B9502@Alameda.net> from Ulf Zimmermann at "Jul 16, 98 02:25:51 am" To: ulf@Alameda.net Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:06:58 +0930 (CST) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 'Ulf Zimmermann scribbled..' > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 06:42:21PM +0930, Dave Edwards wrote: > > We are having a minor problem too in that for a new user, qpopper > > cannot create the temp file .$username.pop in the mail spool > > directory. If the file already exists there is no problem. > > > > Anyone else seen this? > > Is your /var/mail group writable ? On a machine which went from 2.0 to > 2.1.x to 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 it was not group writable and I always had > that problem. I made a special temp dir for the pop users and > changed qpopper to use it, instead of the /var/mail for it's tmp > files. Don't like the idea of /var/mail group writable. I'll change qpopper to use /tmp I think. ciao dave -- Dave Edwards davo@chunga.apana.org.au || davo@sa.apana.org.au Adelaide, South Australia ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message