[cobalt-users] Re: Qube3 - What is the correct permissions on /var/spool/mail/*

[Peter Frederick <pfred@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:28:10 -0500, Parker Morse wrote:

>On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 04:59  PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
>> I noticed a bunch of these appear in our maillog while I was installing 
>> the
>> patches to our OS 6.4 Qube3 professional. It did it for a bunch of users
>> but then has stopped.
>>
>> Mar  4 10:55:14 mail procmail[1795]: Enforcing stricter permissions on
>> "/var/spool/mail/<username>"
>>
>> It was changing them from 660 -rw-rw---- to 600 -rw-------
>>
>
>> PS Everything is working fine - it's just a little strange that it started
>> doing it then decided to stop - the message occurs as part of a delivery 
>> of
>> inbound mail (from an outside domain) because you can see the subsequent
>> <from> style message line.
>

>Procmail is picky about permissions. One of the chronic new-user problems 
>with procmail is overly-liberal (in procmail's opinion) permissions on 
>configuration files. I didn't know it was doing the fixes itself, though. 
>:-)

Yup - it is!

>
>All the user mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/<user>) on our Qube3 are 600 
>(except Sanitizer's "quarantine" mailbox, which isn't really a user and 
>belongs to admin.) I'm not sure if procmail changed them or if they 
>shipped that way. Maybe your sendmail patch changed them to 660? (Not 
>likely, all of mine are changed and some haven't had mail since I patched.
>  And I think we used the same patch.)

I used the solarspeed.net pkg which worked fine.

We have installed a brand new backup Qube3 in the last week - with all Sun
patches - at present we only have one mailbox on it - admin and it is 660
so I'll keep an eye on it.

I don't know much about procmail - it came with the box and is configured
via the GUI on our system at least! Will keep an eye on it and see what I
find out.

It was just a little strange - also I do not understand why it only did it
for a certain period of time. It seemed to be while we were installing a
bunch of patches - we patched our mail Qube3 from a Base 6.4 with the 18
patches to bring it current before installing the Solarspeed.net sendmail
patch. Like maybe one patch started procmail doing this and then some later
patch stopped it from occurring. I'll grep our outher maillog files to
verify that it is still not happening. It changed 14 mailboxes in a time
period from Mar  4 10:55:14  to Mar  4 11:42:13 - less than an hour. 

I'm going to say that some patch turned this behavior off again at around
11:42!

I'll probably change them all to 600 sometime soon.

Thanks
Peter

 



>
>Probably procmail hasn't changed them all because it hasn't had to deliver 
>mail to all your users yet?
>
>pjm
>
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Peter Frederick
MIS Director, Indiana Packers Corp, Delphi IN
Phone: (765) 564-9705   Fax: (765) 564-3684
Work: pfred@xxxxxxxxx   (Qube3 Professional running 6.4)
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