Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:05:33 -0600 From: Don Read <sysop@calcasieu.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <jerryr@ComCAT.COM> Subject: Re: inbox READ ONLY/not sending Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981125200533.007c73e0@mail> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.96.981126124752.1183B-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.n z> References: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9811251542110.7371-100000@uw>
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back on 12:52 PM 11/26/98 +1300, you said: >On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Jerry wrote: > >> > >> > pine needs to have write permission on /var/mail. /var/mail should >> > have gid=mail, so pine needs to be install setgid=mail as well. >> >> This makes sense the pine needs write permission but where is this done >> at?? > >To do this: > chown bin:mail /usr/local/bin/pine > chmod g+s /usr/local/bin/pine > But pine should have rw permissions under the users login, something more is happening here. try ls -l /usr/bin/mail* /usr/sbin/sendmail I get: fir.dread:$ ls -l /usr/bin/mail* /usr/sbin/sendmail -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 69632 Nov 24 1996 /usr/bin/mail -r-sr-xr-x 5 root kmem 294912 May 12 1998 /usr/bin/mailq -r-sr-xr-x 5 root kmem 294912 May 12 1998 /usr/sbin/sendmail fir.dread:$ Regards, -- Don Read sysop@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX - Ya jes' mash that button, rite jher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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