From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 5:32: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swansea.cableinet.net (swansea.cableinet.net [194.117.142.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A7237B400 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 05:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by swansea.cableinet.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F2A6F228301; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:31:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:31:51 +0100 From: Burhan Nazir To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /var/mail permissions after make world Message-ID: <20020412123151.GA78399@swansea.cableinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD swansea.cableinet.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Thu Apr 11 16:35:47 BST 2002 bnazir@swansea.cableinet.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/SWANSEA i386 I recently recompiled the world from 4.4-RELEASE to 4-STABLE. Everything went well. However, I have noticed a peculiarity with the permissions of my /var/mail directory. Before upgrading to 4-STABLE, the permission status of /var/mail was: drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Apr 12 12:58 mail/ and my user mail file under /var/mail: -rw------- 1 bnazir wheel 12347918 Apr 12 12:58 bnazir When I rebuilt the world, the permission status of both remained the same. But whenever I try and read my mail using mutt, I can no longer modify (ie add/delete mail) using /var/mail/bnazir as my inbox. I have to chmod 777 /var/mail to be able to modify my /var/mail/bnazir. This was never the case before. I guess I could just leave it like that, but it irritates me not knowing why this happened after a build world. I was wondering if anyone here had come across a similar problem. Any help most appreciated. -Burhan -- FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE | http://www.freebsd.org 1:16PM up 19:33, 8 users, load averages: 2.67, 2.71, 1.48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message