On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> On 22/07/05 22:31 +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> > > What are the permissions on /, /var and /var/mail?
> > >
> > > Devdas Bhagat
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] software]$ ls -lhd /
> > drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Jul 22 20:58 /
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] software]$ ls -lhd /var/
> > drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4.0K Jul 10 07:51 /var/
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] software]$ ls -lhd /var/mail/
> > drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4.0K Jul 19 21:44 /var/mail/
>
> chmod 1777 /var/mail
> chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail
>
> Same permissions as /tmp.
>
> Devdas Bhagat
I did that but still I find some mails are staying put in
/var/spool/mail/sharukh.
For example if I send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail goes to
/var/spool/mail/sharukh instead of going to $HOME/mail/INBOX as _most_
mail does. This is FC4.
regards and thanks,
Sharukh.
--
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer.
Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent
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