Re: Where is root mail going?

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 06:49:45PM +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 23:56 -0800, oldman wrote:
> > It complained on my system too, but told me that the /var/spool and
> > var/spool/mail directories needed to be chmodded to 01777.  After that
> > it worked as advertised.
> It's normally *not* a good idea to let anyone be able to write to those
> directories.

Although with the +t bit on, it's not necessarily terribly harmful.

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Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx          <http://mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>              <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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