Re: security(8) doesn't know about mailbox locks

2016-10-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Philippe Meunier wrote on Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:35:46PM -0400: > When cron runs /etc/daily, that script runs df and netstat and the > output is sent by email to root. On my system, emails to root are > forwarded to local user meunier using /root/.forward. The forwarding > itself temporari

Re: security(8) doesn't know about mailbox locks

2016-10-21 Thread Philippe Meunier
Kamil Cholewiński wrote: >Try using aliases(5) instead Okay, but still, security(8) ought not to generate bogus warnings regardless of the method used to forward emails (and there are also probably other ways that a lock file might end up in /var/mail, using a .forward file just happens to be the

Re: security(8) doesn't know about mailbox locks

2016-10-21 Thread Kamil Cholewiński
On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Philippe Meunier wrote: > When cron runs /etc/daily, that script runs df and netstat and the > output is sent by email to root. On my system, emails to root are > forwarded to local user meunier using /root/.forward. The forwarding > itself temporarily creates a lock file in

security(8) doesn't know about mailbox locks

2016-10-21 Thread Philippe Meunier
Hello, When cron runs /etc/daily, that script runs df and netstat and the output is sent by email to root. On my system, emails to root are forwarded to local user meunier using /root/.forward. The forwarding itself temporarily creates a lock file in /var/mail: -rw--- 1 root wheel