From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 8 10:16:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from lark.capnet.state.tx.us (lark.capnet.state.tx.us [204.65.39.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B7737B95E; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us) Received: from localhost (bbradsby@localhost) by lark.capnet.state.tx.us (8.10.0/8.10.0-NO UCE) with ESMTP id e78HG7h13089; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:16:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:16:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryan Bradsby To: Robert Watson Cc: Matt Heckaman , FreeBSD-PORTS , FreeBSD-SECURITY Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Edit the system wide /usr/local/etc/pine.conf (or the local .pinerc, for single use) and append 'quell-lock-failure-warnings' to 'feature-list=' I wish there was a better answer than suppressing the bogus error message. -bryan bradsby PS: see also /usr/local/etc/pine.conf.fixed for complete control overridding any of your users individual settings. =================================================================== On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Matt Heckaman wrote: > > > This is a bad thing. The default permissions on FreeBSD for /var/mail are > > root:mail 0775 which, in my opinion, is far better than 1777. I'm curious > > as to why all of the sudden it is reporting the mailbox as 'vulnerable'. > > Dunno, but I agree with your conclusion that 0775 is better :-). > > > I've had a ton of users of mine freak out over this, and I must admit it's > > odd. Pine aso has a new? depend on c-client4.7 which it did not have a few > > months ago to my knowledge, as I have one pine build from March 19 that > > does not have this depend or the mailbox warning. > > It sounds like a spurious warning from an over-zealous developer that did > not plan for our mail delivery environment. I haven't been using Pine > 4.21, but I think this is a warning that can be safely silenced in the > port, although you probably want to get confirmation from others familiar > with the Pine iand c-client mplementations before going ahead with that. > > Robert N M Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message