[tpop3d-discuss] problem with dotfile locking

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:03:20PM +0800, Haris Hudji wrote:
> auth-pam-mail-group: users
> auth-pam-mail-user: mail
> 
> and the output of 'ls -l /var/spool/mail/test':
> -rw-rw-r--    1 mail     users        1249 Sep  4 14:23 /var/spool/mail/test
> 
> 8 is uid number of mail and 100 is gid number of users. No other program is
> accessing test mailbox. If I recompile with --disable-dotfile-lock the
> problem is gone. Server is running linux redhat 6.2

What are the permissions on /var/spool/mail? Can
mail.users *create* a file there?

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