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#! rnews 1393 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!news.tamu.edu!news From: Chris Schmidt <cschmidt@me.pvamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 01:08:57 -0500 Organization: Prairie View A&M University M.E. Dept. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31DA0E79.7EC8@me.pvamu.edu> References: <jmanley-2906960000510001@fw42.metronet.com> <4r3peo$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31D6C791.4746@me.pvamu.edu> <4rc156$crm@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pvcea.cea.pvamu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.elm:19646 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22697 J Wunsch wrote: > > Because we have a working fcntl() (or flock()), so it's not needed. > > Because it requires elm to run setgid, and it requires the mail spool > directory to be group-writable. This is a step backwards security- > wise. > > The only justification for this is to work around the not-yet- > functional NFS file locking in case of an NFS-share mail spool. Okay, well most of the machines I was reffering to do use NIS and share and NFS mounted /usr/spool/mail dir. So maybe that was why it was used so often. Chris