On Sep 14, 2010, at 11:16 AM, d...@safeport.com wrote: >> A bit of experimentation suggests that "chmod 7500 .procmail" are the >> permissions involved, which are silly. No group permissions enabled means >> setgid is meaningless, and I don't see any value for using the sticky bit >> here, either. Try using 0500, 0700, or maybe 4500/4700 instead. > > thanks all - the context of this: the users involved do not know what the > chmod command is much less its syntax and I did not do this. What I was going > for was could this be a procmail bug or perhaps something more alarming (to > me as a sysadmin).
The permissions here are unexpected. procmail cares about clearing group and other permissions-- unless GROUP_PER_USER is set (cf http://partmaps.org/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#group-writable), which usually would be appropriate for FreeBSD since it encourages all userids to also have a corresponding groupid. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
