Problem with Fedora1 and ipop3d
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Apr 23 13:40:08 UTC 2004
Am Fr, den 23.04.2004 schrieb Brian Edginton um 13:31:
> > Why does the SystemLogger keep telling me /var/spool/mail folder has to have
> > access 777?
>
> Sorry, I came into this converstation a bit late.
>
> I believe that you are actually being told to chmod the directory to
> 1777. This sets the sticky bit on the directory.
>
> I know that courier (an MTA) wants the mail spool set this way, I'm not
> sure about any other MTA's. It actually makes sense.
>
> edge
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
And again:
That is no default Fedora Core 1 behaviour, to state the need for
/var/spool/mail having chmod 1777! Those permissions set was never
necessary even on previous Redhat releases. Again: there must be
something incorrect causing such an error message.
Alexander
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