Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:14:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Popper 2.52 Message-ID: <199807161214.IAA09471@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199807160936.TAA09457@chunga.apana.org.au> from Dave Edwards at "Jul 16, 98 07:06:58 pm"
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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
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