Pine 4: can't create lock file error (fwd)

[Nikos Mavroyanopoulos]

At 08:18 PM 7/16/98 +0300, you wrote:

>The other traditional approach is to set the directory such that only
>mail or root can modify it. File ownership lets users modify the mail
>file, but not the directory. This has the drawback that programs
>without root/mail priviliges cannot create log files, hence Pine's
Mallon ennoei lock.

>error message. All mail user agents would have to be SUID, which is
>*very* undesirable. Or locking is compromised which can result in
>lost emails.
SGID mail einai poly kalytero. Px. o mailer mutt einai sgid mail kai
doulevei mia xara, locking klp. Me permitions tou maildir an thymamai
kala root.mail 775.

Nikos

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