Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:23:26 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: Jerry <jerryr@ComCAT.COM>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine inbox "Read Only" Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9812021020570.11799-100000@mercury.webnology.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.96.981201092326.24349C-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
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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
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