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- From: derwin@mach2.wlu.ca (Daryl Erwin)
- Subject: Re: ELM 2.4PL6 - Big problem! Changing permissions on /usr/mail
- References: <Bx9BHq.E1x@mach1.wlu.ca> <848@rc1.vub.ac.be> <k2.721142571@woodstock>
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- Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:54:52 GMT
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- In article <k2.721142571@woodstock> k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) writes:
- >apardon@rc1.vub.ac.be (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
-
- In simple language :-) how is this done?
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