On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:11:08 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > What are the correct mailbox file mode bitmasks in /var/mail? This is > what I have: > > :/var/mail$ ls -al > total 20 > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 2011-03-30 10:00 . > drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2010-01-14 20:21 .. > -rw------- 1 root mail 582 2010-04-13 21:31 root > -rw------- 1 u1 mail 528 2011-01-31 09:56 u1 > -rw-rw---- 1 u2 mail 528 2011-03-30 10:00 u2
I also have such perms for my mbox file (with Exim): sm01@stt008:~$ ls -al /var/mail total 0 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 72 feb 15 22:03 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 360 nov 14 2009 .. -rw-rw---- 1 sm01 mail 0 feb 15 22:03 sm01 > Is this correct?? The u1 user account is disabled, while u2 is active. > The 'mail' group seems to have no users. sm01@stt008:~$ grep mail /etc/group mail:x:8: > I was also looking at Access, Modify and Change times of u2 file using > stat utility. It looks that Modify and Change times get updated on new > mail coming in (Postfix) (Access time remains the same), while all 3 > get updated on mail being pop3 (dovecot). If there is no new mail to > pop3, then the timestamps do not change. I thought Access is about read > or write, and Modify is about metadata (name, mode...) modification??! > What is going on? > > I am running 5.0.8 (Lenny). sm01@stt008:~$ stat /var/mail/sm01 File: «/var/mail/sm01» Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 fichero regular vacío Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 58853 Links: 1 Access: (0660/-rw-rw----) Uid: ( 1000/ sm01) Gid: ( 8/ mail) Access: 2011-03-30 13:58:53.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2011-03-30 13:47:20.000000000 +0200 Change: 2011-03-30 13:47:20.000000000 +0200 sm01@stt008:~$ cat /var/mail/sm01 sm01@stt008:~$ stat /var/mail/sm01 File: «/var/mail/sm01» Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 fichero regular vacío Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 58853 Links: 1 Access: (0660/-rw-rw----) Uid: ( 1000/ sm01) Gid: ( 8/ mail) Access: 2011-03-30 13:59:07.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2011-03-30 13:47:20.000000000 +0200 Change: 2011-03-30 13:47:20.000000000 +0200 The file successfully alters "access" data after issuing the cat command. sm01@stt008:~$ mail sm01 -s test test . Cc: sm01@stt008:~$ stat /var/mail/sm01 File: «/var/mail/sm01» Size: 534 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 fichero regular Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 58853 Links: 1 Access: (0660/-rw-rw----) Uid: ( 1000/ sm01) Gid: ( 8/ mail) Access: 2011-03-30 13:59:07.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2011-03-30 13:59:51.000000000 +0200 Change: 2011-03-30 13:59:51.000000000 +0200 But does not change when it receives new mail... sm01@stt008:~$ mail sm01@stt008:~$ stat /var/mail/sm01 File: «/var/mail/sm01» Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 fichero regular vacío Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 58853 Links: 1 Access: (0660/-rw-rw----) Uid: ( 1000/ sm01) Gid: ( 8/ mail) Access: 2011-03-30 14:00:58.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2011-03-30 14:02:10.000000000 +0200 Change: 2011-03-30 14:02:10.000000000 +0200 And is again altered when someone reads the file. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.03.30.12.07...@gmail.com
