From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 12:50:30 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA28223 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:50:30 -0700 Received: from strider.ibenet.it ([194.179.130.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA28212 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:50:23 -0700 Received: (from piero@localhost) by strider.ibenet.it (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA20805; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 21:54:36 +0200 From: Piero Serini Message-Id: <199508261954.VAA20805@strider.ibenet.it> Subject: Re: Elm and /var/mail To: JOHN@gab.unt.edu (John Booth) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 21:54:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Booth" at Aug 26, 95 02:03:18 pm Reply-To: Piero@strider.ibenet.it Operating-System: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 X-Phone-Number: +39 (2) 58113562 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 786 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello. Quoting from John Booth (Sat Aug 26 16:03:18 1995): > 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?... Did you use the port? If so, it should work. Otherwise, be sure you told Configure you were going to use elm setgid. You should use the internal savegid. Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 I 20136 Milano - ITALY