> Michael Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Package: emacs > > Version: 19.31-2 > > > > movemail complains about not being able to write a temp file in > > /var/spool/mail. > > > > One fix might be to make it setgid mail, iff the code is written to be > > sufficiently paranoid. > > As shipped, it *was* installed setuid root + setgid mail... could you > check your installation and verify, and perhaps be more specific about > movemail's complaint?
Ack -- I'm embarassed. VM found another movemail in my path, a broken one, and used that instead. But this seem to have exposed a real bug: why *is* the real movemail suid root? -- Shields, CrossLink.
