Where is root mail going?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Mar 12 08:19:45 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 23:56 -0800, oldman wrote:
> It complained on my system too, but told me that the /var/spool and
> var/spool/mail directories needed to be chmodded to 01777.  After that
> it worked as advertised.

It's normally *not* a good idea to let anyone be able to write to those
directories.

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