Setting the sticky bit on /var/mail...

Joe Altman fj at panix.com
Tue Oct 7 21:00:15 PDT 2003


On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:26:40PM -0700, Mike Maltese wrote:
> This may not be correct, but my first instinct would be to check for a flag
> on the directory, i.e., 'ls -lo /var | grep mail'.

Absolutely you are correct, and the crowd goes wild with
applause...thank you.

I suppose it would be nice to know what set all of the following on
/var/mail:

opaque nodump uappnd uchg uunlnk

because it sure wasn't me.

Removing them allowed me to set the appropriate bit. Thanks again.




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