🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9008022133.AA23364@pyrmisdev.pyramid.com> kwatson@pyrmisdev.pyramid.com (Kennita Watson) writes:
> 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.

That should probably be
		chgrp mail movemail
		chmod 2755 movemail

I believe the set[ug]id bits are cleared on ch\(grp\|own\).

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

Movemail can't unless the user already belongs to group mail.  Besides, the
numeric GID will likely be different for different implementations.  But
you are right, this should be documented somehow, possibly in the makefile.

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