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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!ringer.cs.utsa.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Portugal.EU.net!news.rccn.net!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Elm does not like me :( Date: 25 Jan 1996 13:10:24 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4e7vg0$rhs@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <4e34av$fin@tzlink.j51.com> <4e5327$1co@news.calweb.com> <4e583s$ara@blackice.winternet.com> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <4e583s$ara@blackice.winternet.com>, John D. Boggs <jdb@robigo.winternet.com> wrote: > > > >chmod 7111 (I belive) on /var/spool/mail should fix that Having /var/mail 1777 is a security hole... > When I compiled elm (before I started using VM) I found that this > error referred to a locking problem. I switched it to use only flock, > and things were just dandy from that point on. Under any version of FreeBSD, one need to have : - /var/mail 755 root.wheel - use only fcntl as locking scheme - configure elm *not* to be setgid mail. It runs fine like that. [ cc'ed to John ] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-