Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:06:58 +0930 (CST) From: Dave Edwards <davo@chunga.apana.org.au> To: ulf@Alameda.net Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Popper 2.52 Message-ID: <199807160936.TAA09457@chunga.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <19980716022551.B9502@Alameda.net> from Ulf Zimmermann at "Jul 16, 98 02:25:51 am"
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'Ulf Zimmermann scribbled..' > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 06:42:21PM +0930, Dave Edwards wrote: > > We are having a minor problem too in that for a new user, qpopper > > cannot create the temp file .$username.pop in the mail spool > > directory. If the file already exists there is no problem. > > > > Anyone else seen this? > > Is your /var/mail group writable ? On a machine which went from 2.0 to > 2.1.x to 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 it was not group writable and I always had > that problem. I made a special temp dir for the pop users and > changed qpopper to use it, instead of the /var/mail for it's tmp > files. Don't like the idea of /var/mail group writable. I'll change qpopper to use /tmp I think. ciao dave -- Dave Edwards davo@chunga.apana.org.au || davo@sa.apana.org.au Adelaide, South Australia ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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