Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site amd70.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!amd70!phil From: phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Making /usr/spool/mail 755 Message-ID: <4448@amd70.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Mar-84 02:38:56 EST Article-I.D.: amd70.4448 Posted: Mon Mar 26 02:38:56 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 01:15:38 EST References: <17220@sri-arpa.UUCP>, <135@uthub.UUCP> Organization: AMD, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 13 This has probably been pointed out before but I just learned it... Ron Wessels proposes to make /usr/spool/mail 755 and keep the lock files in there. This probably works fine under straight V7 but we run V7 with Berkeley enhancements like /usr/ucb/Mail and it is necessary for `Mail' to write /usr/spool/mail when putting back mail that is either unread or preserved. Therefore both /usr/ucb/Mail and /bin/mail need to observe the same locking protocol. The way I see it, you can either move the locks to /tmp or leave /usr/spool/mail 777. I chose the former. -- Phil Ngai (408) 988-7777 {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd70!phil