> > russ had a specific objection to "append" directories. i don't
> > recall how the argument went.
> >
>
> Is it because you can bind in new stuff to a directory if you need it?
not really. it was related to the problems with /tmp directories
in linux.
consider a standard unix-style mailbox.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:55 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Mon Mar 22 16:22:15 EDT 2010, n...@lsub.org wrote:
> > It would help being able to "append" to a directory, i.e., being able to
> > create new files but not to, say, remove, already created files.
>
> i considered modifying the fileserver
On Mon Mar 22 16:22:15 EDT 2010, n...@lsub.org wrote:
> It would help being able to "append" to a directory, i.e., being able to
> create new files but not to, say, remove, already created files.
i considered modifying the fileserver to do something similar
for nupas. perhaps reusing the 'a' bit.
It would help being able to "append" to a directory, i.e., being able to
create new files but not to, say, remove, already created files.
mail2fs has the same problem. I run it from a cron on my name, thus my folders
have 770 or 775 and not 777. But, if you want to run this, say, as
user none, you
On 22 March 2010 13:37, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> So... how is the mail -c call in newuser supposed to work for normal
>> (ie: not in group sys) users?
>
> this is how the permissions were set up in 2005 on my machine:
>
> ; ls -ld /mail/box
> d-rwxrwxrwx M 456741 upas upas 0 Jul 15 2009 /mail/box
> So... how is the mail -c call in newuser supposed to work for normal
> (ie: not in group sys) users?
this is how the permissions were set up in 2005 on my machine:
; ls -ld /mail/box
d-rwxrwxrwx M 456741 upas upas 0 Jul 15 2009 /mail/box
- erik
It doesn't. Such users have to ask nicely for
someone to create the mailbox directory on the
file system console.
Russ
On my system, /mail/box is mode 775. This matches what's on sources.
So... how is the mail -c call in newuser supposed to work for normal
(ie: not in group sys) users?
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