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- From: borchert@titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert)
- Subject: Re: automounted /var/spool/mail
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.140721.28145@informatik.uni-ulm.de>
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- References: <tkevans.713073293@eplrx7.es.dupont.com> <1992Aug6.225247.17865@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 14:07:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug6.225247.17865@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, peter@ski.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.838.4019) writes:
- > In article <tkevans.713073293@eplrx7.es.dupont.com> tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com writes:
- > >We automount /var/spool/mail from a Sun server everywhere. The
- > >AIX systems properly mount the mail spool, but can't write to it.
- > >bellmail complains about permissions. All the other Sun systems
- > >around have no problem. Ideas? Thanks.
- >
- > This is a common problem. bellmail runs setuid root, and needs the
- > mail directory to be exported with root access. Then it will run
- > just fine. Be sure to get apar ix26324, though, which fixes mail
- > locking in general, and over nfs in particular.
- >
- > The Sun systems probably have no problems because you've defined
- > the sendmail OR option that tells sendmail that the mail directory
- > is remote, and to send all mail to the mailhost. This is a Sunism
- > and I haven't seen it on other sendmails, and AIX is no exception
- > (for once :-). There is a DCR 62782 open which suggests that AIX
- > should do the same thing, but it won't happen in the very near
- > future, so you can either export the mail directory with root
- > access, or hack up your sendmail.cf file to send all mail to
- > the mailhost.
-
- Mounting /var/spool/mail without root access and without OR option
- works on Suns (at least on our net). The only problem is mail delivery
- for the root itself but this can be solved by use of aliases.
-
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