I think that my mail is delivered to /var/spool/mail/$USERNAME.... when I
have mail, the system reports something with a path similar to the above.
- Mike T.
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Michael B. Trausch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running Slackware 3.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel 2.0.34 Slackware Distribution: www.cdrom.com
Running Pine 4.05, Lynx 2.81, and learning about Linux along the way!
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I bought my wife a new car. She called and said,
"There was water in the carburetor." I said,
"Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."
-- Henny Youngman
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Using recycled bits, Michael B. Trausch said:
> % I just downloaded and upgraded to Pine 4.05, and I'm having only one
> % problem, and it's a nuisance problem and nothing else... but anyway,
> % every time that I open my mailbox or change screens, the Pine says this:
> %
> % [Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection]
> %
> % Any ideas? I've ran the following on my ~/mail directory:
> %
> % chmod 1777 mail
>
> Does your mail get delivered to ~/mail or to /var/spool/mail/$USERNAME?
>
> WARNING: WHAT FOLLOWS IS SPECULATION: My guess is that Pine expects
> the permissions to be mode 6000. The chmod command you issued above
> makes ~/mail world-readable, world-writable and world-executable,
> which has increased its vulnerability. Try chmod 6000 <file> and
> see if that fixes the problem. This is also dealth with in the PINE
> FAQ and README.
>
> --
> Kurt Wall
> Informix on Linux FAQ - http://www.xmission.com/~kwall/iolfaq.html
> Spanish Translation - http://www.xmission.com/~kwall/iolfaqsp.html
>
