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On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:37:47 +0000 |
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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I got this message when net-mail/mailbase-1.1 was emerged: |
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> * Messages for package net-mail/mailbase-1.1: |
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> * Your //var/spool/mail/ directory permissions differ from |
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> * those which mailbase wants to set it to (03775). |
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> * If you did not change them on purpose, consider running: |
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> * |
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> * chown root:mail //var/spool/mail/ |
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> * chmod 03775 //var/spool/mail/ |
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> Running this chmod changed access rights from: |
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> drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jan 28 19:57 mail |
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> to a sticky-fied: |
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> drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 4096 Jan 28 19:57 mail |
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> Any idea why are the sticky bits for group and others required? |
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sticky for group so that all sub-dirs and files in them are owned by |
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the mail group. Without it, they would be owned by the user running |
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"mailx" and the mail system can no longer manager them. |
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sticky for others is so that you can't delete my mail but you can still |
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create your own mail spool files. Identical logic to /tmp (assuming |
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that you are in the mail group) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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