Chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail
Reuben D. Budiardja
techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Wed Jun 16 16:43:06 UTC 2004
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:30 am, Duncan wrote:
> after chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail , i am now getting these messages in my
> mail log . Jun 16 17:15:09 domainname procmail[3837]: Enforcing stricter
> permissions on "/var/spool/mail/username"
>
> does anyone have an idea wat this means .Do i have to chmod to 775 which i
> understand is the default
I don't know what that means, but here is in my system (RHEL 3):
for /var/spool/mail:
drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 4.0K Jun 16 12:01 mail
for /var/spool/mail/username:
-rw-rw---- 1 username mail 0 Nov 22 2003 username
I don't have any problem / weird messages with those permissions.
RDB
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