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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> <9361@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
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- Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:54:09 GMT
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- In article <9361@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes:
- >Daryl Erwin (derwin@mach2.wlu.ca) wrote:
- >:
- >: Our directories in /usr/mail/ (users mail directories) group permissions
- >: are being chamed from 'mail' to some other group (their own). This stops
- >:
- >: It is not an everytime occurance - it is only sparatic and I have yet
- >: been able to determine when it happens.
- >
- >I may have just reproduced this problem. I was reading some mail and
- >accidentally hit 'e' and went into edit on the incoming mail. I did
- >a ':q!' to get out of that and got a message about a problem resetting
- >permissions. When I checked the group id for my mail spool had changed to
- >'system'. This breaks the mail daemon when it trys to write new mail.
-
- Exactly!
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