[25300] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.2.21: inc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin W Chen)
Tue Nov 4 15:50:47 2003
Message-Id: <200311042050.hA4KoGD9019826@merriweather.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:50:16 -0500
From: Kevin W Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: merriweather.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.2.21 (with mkserv)
Display type: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
incorporate local mail
What's wrong:
[~ merriweather]% inc -file /var/spool/mail/kchen
inc: unable to lock and fopen /var/spool/mail/kchen
What should have happened:
mail should have been incorporated
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
The following fixes the problems, but is not done by "mkserv mail":
chgrp mail /usr/athena/bin/inc
chmod 2755 /usr/athena/bin/inc
chmod 775 /var/spool/mail
It seems that on machines without sendmail configured,
/var/spool/mail has 775 permissions, but on machines with sendmail
configured, /var/spool/mail has 755 permissions.
The same also applies for Sun machines, though the /var/mail
directory already has the proper permissions; only the permissions
for /usr/athena/bin/inc need to be changed as noted above.
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