Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:57:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961028175432.24970C-100000@quagmire.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <MailManager.846538027.8148.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Mark Crispin wrote: > Let's start with the easy part: the permissions (drwxr-xr-x or 0755) on > /var/mail are wrong. They should be (drwxrwxrwt or 01777); in other words, > "world write" with the "sticky bit". 0755 has always been wrong. > The only one I didn't think of trying :( > First, I don't understand why you say you are getting it "again". > > This error may be new to you if you were previously running imap-3.6, but it > wouldn't happen "again". If it happens, it will always happen until you fix > the permissions on /var/mail, and it will not happen "again" unless you break > the permissions again. > > Does this make sense to you? There's only a few possibilities: > 1) the permissions on /var/mail were changed back to 0755 without your > knowledge. > 2) you haven't run imap-4 before, or were not running it without > getting the message. > 3) somebody modified your copy of the imap-4 source code without your > knowledge to disable the message. > 4) something else is happening that you don't know about. > Non of the above...I ran 'make hierarchy' when I upgrade my FreeBS Mail server...they seem to believe that /var/mail shoudl be 755, it seems... CC'ng this to the FreeBSD Mailing list... > imapd. What is the EXACT error message? > > It should be: > Error creating %s: %s > with the first %s substituted with a file name and the second %s substituted > with an operating system error string. That message has everything that you > need to know. > > For example, if you get: > Error creating /var/mail/foo.lock: Permission denied > then you need to discern why the user (probably "foo") gets a "Permission > denied" from the OS when he tries to create the file "/var/mail/foo.lock". > Yes, sorry...I didnt' have a copy of the error message in front of me when I sent the email...it was meant as an approximation (a bad one it seems)...but it was good enough that you were able to give me the answer I required Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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