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- From: stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger)
- Subject: Re: changing groups in /var/spool/mail
- Message-ID: <stritzi.712304414@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Keywords: ELM, RS6000, groups
- Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
- References: <1992Jul27.193336.22438@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:20:14 GMT
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- donath@math.uiowa.edu (Matt Donath) writes:
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-
- >I'm having a problem with elm on an RS6000. Whenever someone tries
- >to save mail in their incoming folder, elm changes the group of their
- >/var/spool/mail/<username> file to the same group that the user is
- >in. This causes a problem because the group needs to be set to
- >"mail".
-
- >Has anyone else experienced this problem? If someone who has elm running
- >on an RS6000 could let me know what they did, I would be grateful.
-
- We've got the same problem. Are you running AIX 3.2? In AIX 3.1 the files
- in /var/spool/mail are rw for owner only and GID of the owner. This
- changed in 3.2 (rw for owner and group, GID mail). If this is the reason,
- we've got a real problem because our mail directory is NFS-mounted on
- 3.1 and 3.2 machines.
-
- Has anybody fixed this?
-
- --
- Peer Stritzinger
- Phone: +(49)8141-90613
- Internet: stritzi@physik.tu-muenchen.de
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