Subject: Bug#3901: dotlock" should be setgid mail

From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 06:20:59 -0400

A couple of days ago, Lars mentioned
> I suggest staying with rwxrwxrwt.
with respect to the permissions for /var/spool/mail.

Mine is:
drwxrwsr-t   2 mail     mail         1024 Jul 31 13:08 /var/spool/mail/

I couldn't find the debian package that installed this directory, so 
I couldn't figure out if these permissions were "right", whatever that 
means.  So,

a) can someone tell me what package/file/script does install /var/spool/mail?
   (I'd use this info to find out why my search method failed.)

b) Are those permissions "right"?

c) Lars, what did you mean by saying "staying with rwxrwxrwt"?

Regards,
Susan Kleinmann
[email-masked]

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From: Lars Wirzenius <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 23:49:31 +0300

>    (I'd use this info to find out why my search method failed.)

I would assume that it is either the initial installation, or smail/sendmail.

> c) Lars, what did you mean by saying "staying with rwxrwxrwt"?

I was hoping you would tell me. :-)

I was confused, ignore me.

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