usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (07/12/89)
We have a problem with the way mail is handled on the sun's vs. the
HP's. I cannot see any way to make my spool directory on the HP's under
ELM point to a NFS mounted spool directory on a sun. The problem seems
to lie in protections. If anyone has come up with a workable solution to
this problem I would love to hear of it.
Greg Fell
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Gregory Fell A. H. Case Center for CAE/M
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Michigan State University
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"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition...."jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) (07/13/89)
In article <3759@cps3xx.UUCP> fell@frith.egr.msu.edu (Gregory Fell) writes: >We have a problem with the way mail is handled on the sun's vs. the >HP's. I cannot see any way to make my spool directory on the HP's under >ELM point to a NFS mounted spool directory on a sun. The problem seems >to lie in protections. If anyone has come up with a workable solution to >this problem I would love to hear of it. > Greg Fell [ Thanks for the compliment on the previous message. I guess that it's time for me to "earn" it now... :-) ] Well, I would suspect that you might have Elm running suid as root... Here's what I do here, that seems to work: % ls -lg `pathof elm` -rwxr-sr-x 1 root sys 249856 Jul 10 23:58 /usr/local/bin/elm % ls -lgd /usr/spool/mail drwxrwxr-x 2 root sys 512 Jul 12 09:58 /usr/spool/mail Notice that I'm not using root over NFS, but rather set GID sys. Another thing is to check and see if rpc.lockd is running. Elm attempts to lock your spool mailbox when processing it. If nothing else, send me mail with details, and we can summarize what we find to the net. -Jeff -- Jeff Beadles Unix Engineering Group, Tektronix Inc. jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM Member of the Elm Development Group