Bug#3901: dotlock should be setgid mail

1996-08-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Susan G. Kleinmann: a) can someone tell me what package/file/script does install /var/spool/mail? (I'd use this info to find out why my search method failed.) I would assume that it is either the initial installation, or smail/sendmail. c) Lars, what did you mean by saying staying with

Bug#3901: dotlock should be setgid mail

1996-08-02 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
A couple of days ago, Lars mentioned I suggest staying with rwxrwxrwt. with respect to the permissions for /var/spool/mail. Mine is: drwxrwsr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Jul 31 13:08 /var/spool/mail/ I couldn't find the debian package that installed this directory, so I couldn't figure

Bug#3901: dotlock should be setgid mail

1996-07-31 Thread Christophe Le Bars
Unfortunately, dotlock (from the TkMail package) is not setgid mail like it needs to be, and thus can't do the job. That was my bug report. It will be in the next release... Also the duplication between dotlock (TkMail) and lockfile (procmail) is rather pointless. It would be nice