Philip Hazel wrote:
> You should set there whatever is standard on your operating system. Some
> operating systems call it /var/spool/mail. You normally need to set the
> "sticky bit" (the "t" bit) on shared mail directories like this. We have
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 212992 Apr 27 15:16 /var/mail/
Just as a point of interest, why do you set /var/mail as world-writable?
I'm sure our version of Cops would yuk at this, ours is 1770 and all
works perfectly, alway has.
Tony
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