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- From: apardon@rc1.vub.ac.be (Antoon Pardon)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: ELM 2.4PL6 - Big problem! Changing permissions on /usr/mail
- Message-ID: <848@rc1.vub.ac.be>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 11:36:54 GMT
- References: <Bx9BHq.E1x@mach1.wlu.ca>
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- Organization: Brussels Free Universities (VUB/ULB), Belgium
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- In article <Bx9BHq.E1x@mach1.wlu.ca>, derwin@mach2.wlu.ca (Daryl Erwin) writes:
- |> HELP! HELP!
- |>
- |> I think there is a big problem with elm 2.4 (not necessarily just pl6).
- |>
- |> Our directories in /usr/mail/ (users mail directories) group permissions
- |> are being chamed from 'mail' to some other group (their own). This stops
- |> mail from getting through and causes bounces.
- |>
- |> Has anybody else seen this. How can this be fixed el pronto!
-
- We have had similar problems here. The problem however was not elm
- but a buggy NFS. The problems was that when a file was opened with
- the CREAT flag over NFS and you where the owner of the file the group of
- the file was changed to the gid of the process even if the file already
- existed. As a workaround (This works only on bsd systems I think) we
- set the setgid bit on the spooldirectory to indicate that created files
- should get the gid of the spool instead that of the process. It works
- for the moment.
-
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- Antoon Pardon <apardon@vub.ac.be>
- Brussels Free University Computing Centre 02/650.37.16
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