[Mailman-Users] OSX config.pck.last problem possible resolution
John W. Baxter
jwblist at olympus.net
Fri Apr 22 05:21:37 CEST 2005
On 4/21/2005 18:00, "Larry Stone" <lstone19 at stonejongleux.com> wrote:
> I have not run Mac OS X's "repair disk permissions" since the update. I know
> many people recommend doing so both before and after applying any OS update
> but I've found doing so actually causes me problems - it changes the
> permissions on /var/mail to something pine does not like.
Yes, it does (to 775). So I change them back to 1777 after running repair
permissions.
sudo chmod 1777 /var/mail
Not very painful. (1777 allows the U of Washington libraries to create the
"hitching post" files they want to in /var/mail. The 1 prevents the world
from deleting any file that that particular world user didn't create. File
permissions prevent the wrong user from reading others' mail.)
--John
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