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- From: urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Urban)
- Subject: Mounting /usr/spool/mail from HP?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.221801.2738@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Reply-To: urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Urban)
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:18:01 GMT
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- Our mail spooling directory lives on an HP9000/720 (HP/UX 8.07). It
- seemed like a good idea to let a Sun (Sparc 1, SunOS 4.1.1) user take
- mail on that machine and eschew the need for .forward files and the
- like. HPs give the spooling directory a mode of 770 and deliver mail
- via a setgid-to-`mail' /bin/mail; elm is also setGID. Suns, on the
- other hand, depend on their interesting sticky-bit semantics for
- security, and use a mode 777 mail spooling directory. User agents
- like /usr/ucb/mail (and probably mailtool) depend on this to set up a
- mail lock file. Setting /usr/ucb/mail to setgid-to-`mail' does not
- work, either (for some reason the attempt to creat the lock file still
- fails, although I can see no reason why it should), and furthermore
- causes constructs like `set record=~myname/outgoing' in .mailrc to
- fail, quite inexplicably.
-
- Has anyone found a formula for successfully mounting an HP/UX spooling
- directory from a Sun?
-
- (I know. `Use MH'.)
-
- Mike Urban
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- urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
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