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Date:      Sun, 27 Aug 1995 00:24:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brian Litzinger <brian@mediacity.com>
To:        JOHN@gab.unt.edu (John Booth)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Elm and /var/mail
Message-ID:  <199508270724.AAA01630@easy4.easynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <D8FB800966@gab.unt.edu> from "John Booth" at Aug 26, 95 02:03:18 pm

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> This has been bugging me for a while.  I can't get elm to
> work properly w/o making the permissions in /var/mail 777.
> I thought since elm was setgid and that /var/mail had group
> mail and elm was set gid that it would work ok that way...any thoughts
> on this...perhaps I have been compiling it incorrectly?...                               

You could make it 1777, which can cut down on people messing with
each others files a little.

Brian Litzinger
brian@easynet.com



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