Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:29:51 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: matt <matt@AIC-GW.MLINK.NET> Cc: Scott Benjamin <SBenjamin@quest.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail VS Qmail Message-ID: <19990617192951.A16567@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906170829570.1180-100000@aic-gw.mlink.net> References: <19990617151526.C3177@africaonline.co.ke> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906170829570.1180-100000@aic-gw.mlink.net>
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matt wrote:
> + system("chmod 700 $home/$name");
Did you have something against:
chmod 0700, "$home/$name";
?
> + system("touch $home/$name/Mailbox");
> + system("chown $name:$name $home/$name/Mailbox");
> + system("chmod 600 $home/$name/Mailbox");
> + system("ln -s $home/$name/Mailbox /var/mail/$name");
Likewise, they can easily be done properly from within Perl.
open F, ">>$home/$name/Mailbox";
close F;
($uid, $gid) = (getpwnam $name)[2,3];
chown $uid, $gid, "$home/$name/Mailbox";
chmod 0600, "$home/$name/Mailbox";
symlink "$home/$name/Mailbox", "/var/mail/$name";
should do something like what you want, much more efficiently than just
doing system("..."). (I'm assuming you're using touch(1) only to create
the file, and don't care about updating the atime/mtime of the file.)
ObThread: I like exim, http://www.exim.org. Pretty much sendmail
compatible, but more supposedly more secure, faster, and in my opinion
is easier to configure. Although I have been *very* tempted to switch to
Postfix, I have had no problems with exim yet though.
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