From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 07:15:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02381 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 07:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02376 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 07:15:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA12137; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:23:27 -0600 (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:23:26 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Jonathan Chen cc: Jerry , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine inbox "Read Only" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Pine requires write permission on /var/mail for a user. To do this, > it's usually installed with setgid=mail (ie the owner of /var/mail) Alternately, set the permissions on /var/mail to 1777 (drwxrwxrwt), the same as /tmp, which is the recommended solution. Be sure to stick /var/mail on its own partition, though, so you can apply user quotas to it (which you should do whether you're running pine or not, in a multiuser system). Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message