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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!mbramwel.business.uwo.ca!MARK From: MARK@ardsley.business.uwo.ca (Mark_Bramwell) Subject: Can't su or read mail: permissions broken? Organization: Western Business School Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 14:46:49 GMT Message-ID: <MARK.684.2D340D59@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mbramwel.business.uwo.ca Lines: 20 I have just loaded up FreeBSD from freebsd.cdrom.com The install was fairly clean. No problems. However, I seem to have a permissions problem. Other than root, no one can mail. Giving /var/mail 777 fixes it but giving it read/write for the world does not. The X bit must be turned on. I have tried all sorts of combos and only 777 makes email works. Also, I have put myself in the wheel group, yet I can not su. I think it is again a permission problem. Meaning, If I give myself full rwx to /etc I would be able to su. This is a brand new install. Is freebsd considered stable? I don't want to have to fight with something as simple as the chmod command. How does NetBSD compare? I am looking for a box that will give lan people net access via unix. ie: ftp, telnet, gopher, plus I would run gopherd and a www daemon.