... trying to get an errant package (akpop3d) squared away raised the following question:
Some othe OSs (Linux-Fedora, and FreeBSD) assign ownership of the /var/mail directory to a group named "mail"; OpenBSD assigns ownership of this directory to the group "wheel". Apparently akpop3d needs write access to /var/mail to create a lock file for the user's mail spool. akpop3d assumes /var/mail is owned by group "mail", but allows that to be changed at startup with the -g option. This leads me to a two-part question: 1. Is there an advantage to assigning group ownership of /var/mail to "wheel", or was this choice simply arbitrary? 2. To get akpop3d running should I change group ownership of /var/mail to "mail" (rather than giving akpop3d the '-g wheel' option)? And yes - I did email the port maintainer, but have received no response in almost a week. Thnx, Jay
