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 -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN --------------------------------------------------------- "To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." - Linus Torvalds - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list