From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 31 17:39:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kirk.dsl.visi.com (kirk.dsl.visi.com [209.98.248.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A661937BD81 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:39:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgl@visi.com) Received: from localhost (dgl@localhost) by kirk.dsl.visi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA04204 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:39:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dgl@visi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: kirk.dsl.visi.com: dgl owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:39:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Doug Lee To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Best /var/mail permissions? 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 Pine wants me to set mode 1777 on /var/mail, and doing so makes Pine much faster at some operations like expunge and checking for new mail when I hit `n' at the end of the message index. `make world' seems to reset /var/mail to 770 however. I know mode 1777 lets users slip files up to their quota limits into /var/mail but know of no other dangers to that mode. Is there a major reason I should not (or should, for that matter) use mode 1777 for /var/mail? -- Doug Lee dgl@visi.com http://www.visi.com/~dgl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message