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Possible bug in solaris2.4 ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tequila System Admin)
Fri May 24 19:39:00 1996

Date:         Fri, 24 May 1996 13:17:05 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Tequila System Admin <root@tequila.randomc.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>

I am running Solaris2.4 on a Sparc 10 and I have noticed when using a mailtool
( I'm the root user here ) and reading others' mail, when I have finished, it
changes the ownership of the /var/mail/'user' file to root. Is this a bug or
a 'feature' of Solaris 2.4 ?

Richard Dows.

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