On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 01:29:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > mailx was made no longer setgid mail in a potato security update because > it was too riddled with security holes, and hence it doesn't have write > permissions to the /var/mail directory. You can still use it for sending > mail, but unless you explicitly chmod g+s it yourself you can't really > use it for reading mail sensibly.
why not change it to use /var/lock/mail/* ? (no, such a directory doesn't exist). That sounds like a minimal change to make to broken mail programs that try to do that kind of locking, but it allows to have /var/lock/mail in mode 1777 (or 1770 and root:mail). -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Ya entre locos me metí, y lo que fuere de ellos será de mí.