movemail access problem

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From: Kennita Watson
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 21:33

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On the Pyramid (berkeley-unix, emacs-version 18.55.1) movemail as
installed is not allowed to create lock files in the /usr/spool/mail
directory.  

Our sysadmin fixed this by logging on as root and doing the following:

	chmod 2755 movemail
	chgrp mail movemail

which apparently causes movemail to be in group "mail" (the group for
/usr/spool/mail) when it runs, so it can create the lock files.

It seems this should be documented somewhere, or better yet, the
movemail.c code should set its group appropriately.

I hope I've described the problem well enough for you to fix it.

Thanks,

Kennita (kwatson@pyramid.com)

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