From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 26 08:55:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14027 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 08:55:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uz.ComCAT.COM (uz.ComCAT.COM [204.170.64.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14015 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 08:55:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerryr@ComCAT.COM) Received: from uw.comcat.com (uw [204.170.64.249]) by uz.ComCAT.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8/sol2/mh/19980701) with ESMTP; id LAA12661; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:50:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by uw.comcat.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/sol2/clnt/19981012) with SMTP id LAA28765; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:50:26 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: uw.comcat.com: jerryr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:50:25 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry X-Sender: jerryr@uw To: Don Read cc: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inbox READ ONLY/not sending In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981125200533.007c73e0@mail> 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 I get: # ls -l /usr/bin/mail* /usr/sbin/sendmail -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 69632 Oct 21 1997 /usr/bin/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 18 Nov 24 14:31 /usr/bin/mailq -> /usr/sbin/sendmail -r-sr-xr-x 1 root kmem 328053 Nov 24 14:31 /usr/sbin/sendmail > back on 12:52 PM 11/26/98 +1300, you said: > >On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Jerry wrote: > > > >> > > >> > pine needs to have write permission on /var/mail. /var/mail should > >> > have gid=mail, so pine needs to be install setgid=mail as well. > >> > >> This makes sense the pine needs write permission but where is this done > >> at?? > > > >To do this: > > chown bin:mail /usr/local/bin/pine > > chmod g+s /usr/local/bin/pine > > > > But pine should have rw permissions under the users login, something more > is happening here. > try > ls -l /usr/bin/mail* /usr/sbin/sendmail > > I get: > fir.dread:$ ls -l /usr/bin/mail* /usr/sbin/sendmail > -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 69632 Nov 24 1996 /usr/bin/mail > -r-sr-xr-x 5 root kmem 294912 May 12 1998 /usr/bin/mailq > -r-sr-xr-x 5 root kmem 294912 May 12 1998 /usr/sbin/sendmail > fir.dread:$ > > Regards, > -- > Don Read sysop@calcasieu.com > EDP Manager dread@texas.net > Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX > - Ya jes' mash that button, rite jher > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message