From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 16 05:25:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02206 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 05:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (root@magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA02201 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 05:25:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.8) with UUCP id IAA02281 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:25:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA09471 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:14:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199807161214.IAA09471@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: Popper 2.52 In-Reply-To: <199807160936.TAA09457@chunga.apana.org.au> from Dave Edwards at "Jul 16, 98 07:06:58 pm" To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:14:12 -0400 (EDT) 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 Dave Edwards recently said: > '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. Most systems I've worked with have had 'mail' as the group for the /var/mail, and group mail is writable for /var/mail. Files are all deposited with rw owner only. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message