NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/mail/elm/3218

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From: [e-mail] (Klaus Steinberger)
Subject: Re: ELM 2.4PL6 - Big problem! Changing permissions on /usr/mail
Message-ID: <k2.721142571@woodstock>
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 13:22:51 GMT
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[e-mail] (Antoon Pardon) writes:

>|> 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.

Thanks for that tip, I did have sometimes similar problems, and could
not track it down, but this I think would help. (At least on my
EP/IX box, setgid works).

Sincerely,
Klaus
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