Heya all, I've had a slightly confusing prob that hasn't had a negative effect on anything, so I've never really taken care of it, but I figured it was time to ask...
Here are the permissions on my mail dir..... drwxrwxrwt 4 root mail 151552 Feb 19 09:23 /var/mail I'm not exactly sure how this happens, but I end up with the mail files having either one set of permissions or another. Both work fie, so there's no really adverse effects, but my security script complains each day. Anyhow, here is an example of each of the types... -rw-rw---- 1 user1 mail 11849 Feb 19 05:51 user1 -rw------- 1 user2 user 0 Feb 18 18:12 user2 I THINK that the local mailer may be responsible for the first type when we add a new user and they don't have a mail file yet. When they receive their first piece of mail, the file is created. By the way, the local mailer runs as root, sendmail runs as root, and I believe that qpopper runs as the user. We're running qpopper in stand-alone and server mode. To tell you the truth, I'm not completely sure, and I haven't taken the time to experiment, which means I probably shouldn't even have written this email yet, but I thought that if it was something horribly obvious or well known, someone could throw a suggestion my way... Thanks! Rick Kunkel
