[cobalt-developers] CMU irregularity

[Albert Croft <acroft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Friday night, I performed a migration of a RaQ3 to a RaQ4 using the 
migration utility (2.? - obtained from the link given on this list by 
Mr. Bilicki) for the machine we use for mail. Today, I found what might 
be a possible issue for consideration with that utility.

We noticed messages, such as the following (usernames substituted with 
"xxx.xxx" here):

   mail procmail[9235]: Couldn't rename bogus
   "/home/sites/site81/../../spool/mail/xxx.xxx" into
   "/var/spool/mail/BOGUS.xxx.xxx.4-rB"

This seemed to occur with several users, but looking further, each 
username contained a '.' (joe.bob, for example). The mail spool file for 
each of these users showed up with a number, rather than an account 
name, in a long directory listing.

I could not tell where the ownership of the file was reset, but it is my 
guess (correct me if I am wrong, please) that the username is being 
used, as opposed to the uid, in the change. I was able to correct the 
issue by changing the ownership of the spool file to that user using the 
chown command with the numeric uid (the name failed, it assuming that a 
bare period was a seperator for name.group).

I hope this information may prove helpful, either to the persons working 
on it (thank you for the work on such a utility), or to other users.

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-Albert Croft
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