On 10-Mar-2009, at 13:37, Rupert Reid wrote:
Hello All,
I am running postfix (apple version) with MAC OSX10.4.11 client. I
found the following entries in the "Console/501/console.log". I am
concerned but do not know what it means. The var/log/mail.log does
not show any errors and seem to be sending/receiving mail without
problem. Below is the output of postconf -n. I would be grateful
if anyone could:
a. Tell me what the console.log means
the permissions on /var/mail/ are wrong
b. Should I be concerened and what should I do about it
sudo chmod 1777 /var/mail/
it should look like this:
$ ls -lsd /var/mail/
2 drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 1536 Mar 10 14:58 /var/mail/
(note the 't')
Also, you might want to man chmod and man 2 chmod and look for "sticky"
If mode ISVTX (the `sticky bit') is set on a directory, an
unprivileged user may not delete or rename files of other
users in that directory. The sticky bit may be set by any
user on a directory which the user owns or has appropriate
permissions. For more details of the properties of the
sticky bit, see sticky(8).
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