Re: Bug#20400: elm-me+ fails attempts to open mailbox...
On Tue 31 Mar 1998, Tan Wee Yeh wrote:
> James Troup wrote,
> :John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
>
> :> > Problem: The group of the elm binary is set to root, and
> :> > the default inbox is owned by "mail.41420".
This raises the question why on the Alpha, /var/spool/mail is group
41420. I had problems with this when I used mutt and exim as well.
"chgrp mail /var/spool/mail" helped.
> :> If the group is set to root, then somehow the Alpha port got messed
> :> up; on the PC, it is set to:
>
> :> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 364316 Feb 22 09:50 /usr/bin/elm
>
> Yep, that is exactly as set in my debian-i386 boy :).
>
> :-rwxr-sr-x root/mail 556632 1998-03-18 21:02 usr/bin/elm
> :As it is in the alpha deb. (dpkg -c works on foreign debs)
> Does that suggest problem with dpkg-alpha??
I just peeked at the postinst in the elm .deb:
#!/bin/sh -e
# Permission processing inserted by debmake on Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:02:24 +0100
if [ -x /usr/sbin/suidregister ]; then
suidregister -s elm-me+ /usr/bin/elm root root 2755
else
chown root.root /usr/bin/elm
chmod 2755 /usr/bin/elm
fi
I guess the problem is partly the absence of elm's own postinst, which
leads debmake to add its "default" postinst, which in this case does The
Wrong Thing.
The next question is whether this is a bug in debmake, or in elm's
packaging...
Paul Slootman
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