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From: hannigan@bose.com (Martin J. Hannigan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: daily insecurity output
Date: 23 Sep 1995 17:04:06 -0400
Organization: Bose Corporation - Engineering Systems
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In article <43s7er$g3c@despina.neptune.com>, tom@neptune.com (Tom Techoueyres)
writes:
|> Hi
|> 
|> I run BSDI on a pentium 120 and I use it for my mailserver. The following is
|> a 
|> message sent to the system administrator. Does anybody knows what it means?
|> 
|> 
|> Checking home directories:
|> user mario home directory is owned by maria
|> user coco2020 home directory is owned by 121
|> user daniel home directory is owned by 122
|> user maria home directory is owned by 123


Are you mixing Unixes and mounting the mail directories?

I had this problem with HP machines mounting a SunOS
4.1.4 mailhost. Turns out that the shells treat ownership 
different for some reason.

-- 
Martin Hannigan (hannigan@bose.com)
Bose Corporation - Engineering Systems
System Administrator 
'Ayuh..It's a bug.'