Tim,
This is a frustrating one. ;-)
Follow the recommendation:
Login as root
Change permission on /var/spool/mail to 1777
So far everything is OK.
Now to the frustrating part. ;-)
Since the installation of RH6.2 I have something called "Dropin's boot
time commands" running every time I boot up my system. It claims that
the system is not in sync with the expected state. If I let it do what
it wants, it will set back the user rights on /var/spool/mail to the
default (was that 0755?) and it all starts over...
I have tried (but not very hard, I admit) to understand what this Dropin
stuff is, but failed. I don't run kudzu or linuxconf services. I've
looked in ntsysv but found nothing that I believe is related to Dropin.
For a while I was almost convinced I was cracked. :-)
I'd like to learn:
a) What is the Dropin stuff.
b) How can I turn it off/on?
c) How can I tell it to permanently accept the correct user rights on
/var/spool/mail ?
And I have to admit I didn't even try 'man dropin'. (Shame on me.)
Regards
Gustav
Tim Kuo wrote:
>
> I found this messages in maillog:
> pop3d[688]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777
> protection
>
> Can anybody tell me what's wrong and what can I do? Thanks.
>
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