From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 1 00:09:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA05177 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 00:09:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA05167 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 00:09:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by quagmire.ki.net (8.8.2/8.7.5) with SMTP id DAA20386; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 03:09:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 03:09:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Mark Crispin cc: Nate Williams , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Mark Crispin wrote: > On Fri, 1 Nov 1996 02:33:57 -0500 (EST), Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > If it runs setgid, it won't trigger any error message, it'll just work. > > > > > Well, I think you just gave me my solution...and after how many > > email passing back and forth? :( > > Presuming that you are able to figure out how to make it run setgid. It's not > as easy as you think. > Well, I typed in 'chmod 2755 imapd' and it worked...no error messages, and no /var/mail set to 1777... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org