Re: Proper permissons on /tmp
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:18:09PM +, void [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a similar problem -- every time I make world, perms on /var/mail get set to 775. Mutt considers my mailbox read-only until I change it to 1777. Is there a supported way to locally override BSD.var.dist, or do I need to install mutt setgid mail, or what? Be sure that mutt_dotlock is setgid mail and is a member of group mail. Just got the same thing yesterday while trying out CVS version of Mutt. -- Vallo Kallaste [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Proper permissons on /tmp
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:18:09 GMT, void wrote: I have a similar problem -- every time I make world, perms on /var/mail get set to 775. Mutt considers my mailbox read-only until I change it to 1777. Is there a supported way to locally override BSD.var.dist, or do I need to install mutt setgid mail, or what? You get two answers here. 1) 1777 on /var/mail is bad, bad, bad. Don't do that. 2) The easiest way to override the permissions and ownerships enforced during a make world is to use CVS to update your sources so that your local hacks to src/etc/mtree/BSD.*.dist are not overwritten on update. There are other ways, but the bottom line is that you should find a way to ensure that those files are modified to your taste before every world update. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Proper permissons on /tmp
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:52:27PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a similar problem -- every time I make world, perms on /var/mail get set to 775. Mutt considers my mailbox read-only until I change it to 1777. Is there a supported way to locally override BSD.var.dist, or do I need to install mutt setgid mail, or what? You get two answers here. [snip] Don't install mutt setgid mail, the mutt_dotlock external program is supposed to be setgid mail. This is what it looks like in my system: 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vallo wheel6740 Nov 16 10:48 flea* 480 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vallo wheel 460808 Nov 16 10:49 mutt* 8 -rwxr-sr-x 1 vallo mail 7288 Nov 16 10:49 mutt_dotlock* 2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vallo wheel 26 Nov 16 10:48 muttbug* 2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vallo wheel 274 Nov 16 10:48 pgpewrap* 24 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vallo wheel 22700 Nov 16 10:49 pgpring* -- Vallo Kallaste [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Proper permissons on /tmp
Leif Neland wrote: Something keeps changing permissions on /tmp to 755, which causes pine to claim the mailbox is in use by another process. This change has occurred a couple of times lately, but I haven't found a pattern. When I reset the perms to 777, pine works normal again. What is the proper perms on /tmp? Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message I ran into the same thing a lot on our main intranet server (Solaris 7).. what it ended up being was pretty simple. I used to compile most of my stuff in /tmp (now I do it in ~/compiling), and sometimes do the bad thing (relative paths.. enough said) of extracting stuff as root in /tmp. Some tarfiles would then extract into . and reset the permissions of . - for instance, McAfee for UNIX virus updates. The permissions would get reset to 755. And of course, I'd get tons of user complaints that things were messing up for them (for instance, uw-imap). Just wanted to share one possible explanation.. this sure had us fooled for a few weeks. -- #-# name thomas r. strombergwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] pos senior systems administrator home [EMAIL PROTECTED] corp research triangle commerce (icc.net) web http://chaotical.ly/ #-# earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet -- william s. burroughs To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Proper permissons on /tmp
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:54:23AM +0100, Leif Neland wrote: What is the proper perms on /tmp? 1777 Kris PGP signature
