As far as I read, the Pine docs on their website said something about
changing the "lockfile" mechanism (what is a lockfile?) such that it
requres 1777 permissions on the /var/spool/mail directory. I have no idea
what that means-- but I do know that something changed to make that an
error.
Now, I need to find out just what is changing the permissions from 1777 to
something else (drwxrwxr-x) on me.
- Mike
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On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
RA>Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 11:07:04 +0000 (GMT)
RA>From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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RA>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RA>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RA>Subject: Re: permissions change
RA>
RA>According to Steve Youngs: While burning my CPU.
RA>>
RA>> Hey! Did you hear what Richard Adams was saying on Mar 19 ?
RA>>
RA>> RA> According to Michael B. Trausch: While burning my CPU.
RA>> RA> > I had my /var/spool/mail permissions on:
RA>> RA> > drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 1024 Mar 18 15:17 mail
RA>> RA> > And it changed to:
RA>> RA> > drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Mar 18 15:17 mail
RA>> RA> ^^^^^^^^^^^
RA>> RA> Thats how they should be.
RA>>
RA>> That's strange, Richard. The docs in Pine 4.10 say the
RA>> permissions on the mail directory should be 1777. And chmod 1777
RA>> /var/spool/mail gives permissions of: drwxrwxrwt.
RA>>
RA>> What's the difference between the two?
RA>
RA>I use an old version of pine, 3.96 (when i use it).
RA>I dont know why they have changed its behaviour, i would imagen they have a
RA>good reason to do so.
RA>
RA>I was of course taking my configuration as a standardly installed program,
RA>so i realy need to put it in another way. Older versions of pine do not need
RA>1777. So i realy cant comment anymore on why 1777 is needed.
RA>
RA>>
RA>> Have A Great Day!!
RA>>
RA>> Steve Youngs
RA>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RA>>
RA>> Convert your 386 or 486 into a Game Boy, run Windows 95!
RA>>
RA>
RA>
RA>--
RA>Regards Richard.
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