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Anthony Moore (Anthony@ahmoore.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> I while I go, I tried MuFS and got it working to the extent that
> it stopped my brother from using my Amiga for anything other than
> reading his mail. The only problem was that whenever I logged on
> to demon, my mail was sent, but it wasnt deleted from the uuspool
> directory. Someone replyed to my orriginal post saying that it
> required a lot of work and writing a few executables to get it to
> work with AmiTCP. Could someone please help me with setting this
> up so I can safely leave my Amiga alone without fear of someone
> reading my mail or (heaven forbid) accidently delete my collection
> of mod files, saved work and the like.

You would probably need to make MailKick be owned by root and change the
set-user-id bit to on. Same for sendmail, nntpclient, trimnews, etc... all
the background programs that keep everything going. I'm guessing though.

> Hope someone can help me with the set up as I cant take another
> assignment going missing which has taken 3 hours to write!

I would have thought that a far better method existed for stopping a brother
using your computer. Namely a smack in the teeth if he so much as looks at
the thing.

Dan.
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