echan@scdt.intel.com (Eldon Chan ~ ) (01/18/91)
|>In article <1991Jan17.161907.13020@turnkey.tcc.com> you write: |>> In article <1790@inews.intel.com> echan@scdt.intel.com (Eldon Chan ~ |>) writes: |>|> |>|> [ mail directory is NFS mounted ] |>|> |>|> >It appeared to me that bellmail has problem writing |>|> >to a NFSed directory... |>|> |>|> Yup, interesting since this is also the case with AIX 1.2, guess its |>a family |>|> sort of problem :-}. The problem, I believe, is that bellmail is suid root |>|> so we have the "feature" in NFS where root=nobody and therefore it can't |>|> write the file. At least this has been my assumption although I never have |>|> spent any time really tracking it down for certain. |>|> |>|> Seems like your solution of forwarding to the NFS host is the best |>alternative. |>|> Anybody know what Sun themselves does about this or whether or not they have |>|> the same problem? |> |>I don't have this problem on the Sun's and Vax's. The /bin/mail works fine. |>Does IBM have a standard .cf for workstation so that it will forward all |>the mail |>to the mail server (just as what I did) ? I seen someone ask the same question |>on this newsgroup. I have tried the same root=hostname trick on a Sun file server, it worked !! I was able to send messages to local users just as I could do on all other Sun and Dec workstations. Althought it works, I don't think this is a good solution in terms of security and administration. NFS experts, can you tell why it works on Sun but not Dec file server ? If you have another solution, please let me know. Thanks. Eldon Chan