> Is there a good reason why /afs in not mode 555?
>
> Sendmail 8.9 is quite unhappy trying to work out of /afs/XXX as it appears
> to be a world and group writeable directory.
>
> I assume it is historical, and done before programs started looked at file
> permissions. I know that it is an effective 555 directory.
>
> Would anything break if this was "fixed" in an upcomming release?
Release? There's nothing inherently special about /afs; it's just a
directory. If you want its modes to be different, turn on your admin
bits and chmod it.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems Programmer
School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
