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- From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
- Subject: Re: SCO Unix v3.2.2 and Elm v2.3 woes
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.085811.20077@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
- Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
- References: <1992Aug29.194524.5658@generic.uucp> <1992Aug30.143831.19268@DSI.COM>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 08:58:11 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In <1992Aug30.143831.19268@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
-
- >marekp@generic.uucp (Marek Pawlowski) writes:
- >This is the well known problem where SCO distributed the directories
- >with the wrong permissions. Run the MMDF script checkup and follow its
- >instructions to change some of the directory permissions. Then Elm will
- >work much better.
-
- If you have any mail problems at all, run the MMDF checkup
- program first. It also tells little white lies insofar as the
- actual permissions required (always suggests group perms 0,
- I think). Anyway, when you have it set correctly, it will
- only complain about a missing program in one of the
- channels. Just relax them to what's sensible according to
- the directory. It may take a few runs of checkup to get it
- right.
-
- >Secondly, Elm need not be Setuid root. SCO UNIX, being a SysV UNIX,
- >Elm should be setgid mail, with /usr/mail being group mail and permissions
- >775. Thats all Elm needs, there is no reason for it to be setuid root.
-
- BTW: SCO uses /usr/spool/mail.
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