Re: some more little bugs in 0.91
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> On Feb 2, 8:07pm, Michael E. Deisher wrote:
> > 1. Only root (and group mail) has permission to write /usr/spool/mail.
> > This causes "emacs -f rmail" to fail. Permissions should be
> > drwxrwxrwt, shouldn't they?
>
> If I remember rightly, under SGI's machines you have to change emacs' mail
> program's group and or permissions (in lib/emacs/<version>/linux<something>
>
> This is what our IRIX says :
>
> -rwxr-sr-x 1 bin mail 51540 Dec 2 08:51 movemail*
Even after changing permissions/ownership from
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 9220 Dec 12 00:14 movemail*
to
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 9220 Dec 12 00:14 movemail*
the problem still occurs. The problem manifests itself as an emacs
error message: "Renaming: permission denied, /var/spool/mail/deisher,
/var/spool/mail/deisher+". However, changing
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Feb 3 07:41 mail/
to
drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 1024 Feb 3 07:41 mail/
solves the problem. Will this create any *new* problems, security
holes, etc.???
--Mike
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