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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: receiving mail Date: 9 Aug 1996 20:34:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ug7df$4l8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4udldc$57h@overload.lbl.gov> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) wrote: > I had a problem on receiving mail by FreeBSD which mounts /var/mail from > a Sun workstation. mail.local complains: "Permission denied". > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > mail.local: /var/mail/jin: Permission denied > 554 <jin@pentium-1.lbl.gov>... Service unavailable The NFS partition is probably not exported with root=0. FreeBSD's mail.local is setuid root. > So, it looks like FreeBSD cannot use mounted partition for receiving mail. > Is this true? Since file locking over NFS doesn't work, you might suffer from nasty dragons as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)