[95090] in RedHat Linux List
Re: pine 4.03
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barnett Hsu)
Thu Oct 15 00:04:40 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:03:42 -0700
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From: Barnett Hsu <bhsu@clubnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.03.9810131400450.878-100000@postal.omnicast.net
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At 02:07 PM 10/13/98 -0700, GateKeepeR News <gatenews@omnicast.net> wrote:
>|
>|pine puts temp files in /var/spool/mail, so it needs to have write access
>|
>|the fix: as root, chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail, or in the newer revisions of
>
>Is this really advisable, and will it mess anything else up? THis is a
>mailserver for ~800 uesrs who have a habit of complaining when something
>goes wrong :) Thanks!
>
Unless I'm mistaken, I believe the permissions of /tmp might also
be 1777.
On my computer, I've been running pine 4.02A and then pine 4.05
with 1777 permissions on /var/spool/mail with the only problem
being that sometimes the owner of the "sent-mail" file in the
user's mail directory becomes root...
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Barnett Hsu, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of California, Riverside
bhsu@clubnet.net barnett@cs.ucr.edu http://bworld.home.ml.org/
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