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Date:      Thu, 13 Apr 1995 12:07:01 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com>
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   /var/mail
Message-ID:  <9504131607.AA08853@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199504131521.LAA12090@goof.com>
References:  <199504131521.LAA12090@goof.com>

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<<On Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:21:32 -0400 (EDT), "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> said:

>     /var/mail should be owner bin, group bin, permissions 775, so that packages
> like elm can write dot-lock files in /var/mail.

NO!!!!!!!

If you make /var/mail group writable, it should be writable by group
`mail', NOT by group `bin'.

-GAWollman

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