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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: known problem with email...buy why?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.191131.25534@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
- References: <1992Dec31.083623.28576@r-node.gts.org> <1992Dec31.133518.7411@sfu.ca> <marcf.725824735@yorku.ca>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 19:11:31 GMT
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- In article <marcf.725824735@yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
- >wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:
- >
- >
- >> HOWEVER, besides disallowing your users send mail, like I suggested,
- >>you could always revert to 'mail'...which, for some reason, WORKS..
- >
- >> Hmm... wierd..eh? It doesn't work with elm, but it works for mail..
- >
- >> ISN'T this wierd???
- >>
- >> Or am I just hallucinating everything???
- >
- >>
- > No hallucinations...I get the exact same thing. Permissions
- >are the same for mail and elm though :(
- >
- >Marc
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- Here is a shot in the dark: doesn't a process have to be running as
- root to use "chown"? Elm is sgid mail.
-
- Peter
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