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Re: /var/mail permission change from squeeze to wheezy



On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 09:59:15 +0200, Juha Heinanen wrote:

> i noticed that permissions of /var/mail dir have changed from squeeze to
> wheezy.
> 
> in squeeze i have
> 
>  $ ls -lsa
> total 60
>  4 drwxrwsrwt  2 root mail  4096 Mar 21 09:00 .

On a new 6.0.7-i386 installation with only the base system and no other
packages the permissions are drwxrwsr-x. This fits what is said in
section 11.6 at

   http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html


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