NFS and mail

[Bob Funchess]

We don't have this exact problem (Suns and Irii) but a similar one:  an IBM
RS/6000 and Irii.  The mail directory lives on the IBM, and the Iris mounts
it.  What seems to work for us is to make sure that the permissions are set
properly on the /usr/spool/mail directory that is being NFS mounted (make sure
it is owned by root, group mail, perms 775) and also make sure that the FILE
permissions are set correctly... owner is the user, group is mail, perms are
660.

If you add a new user, either make sure their first mail comes to the Iris
account, or touch the file and set the ownership.  At least on the IBM, if the
file already exists, its owner and permissions are left alone.  It's only the
first time, when the file is created, that things are treated differently.
In that case, the permissions are set so that mail can be read from the IBM
account, but not from the Iris.

Hope this helps...

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Bob Funchess					bobf at blumiris.chem.umr.edu
Department of Chemistry				University of Missouri - Rolla