On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Casper Dik wrote:
> >On Thu, 30 May 1996, Neil Readwin wrote:
> >
> >> The SunOS 5.5 mailtool seems to follow symlinks when enabling the vacation
> >> feature, so if you
> >>
> >> ln -s /var/mail/luser ~/.forward
> >>
> >> and then enable vacation it copies /var/mail/luser to ~/.forward and
> >> appends "|/usr/bin/vacation me" to it (and moves the symlink to
> >> ~/.forward..BACKUP - I'm not sure if you can do any damage using that
> >> and I no longer have a 5.5 machine handy to check it). Neil.
> >
> >When I did this 5.5 mailtool just died with a segv leaving .forward and
> >.forward..BACKUP there as symlinks. Sometimes .forward is there but is
> >a zero length file. Race condition?
> >
> >This is on a newly installed Ultra 1 140 running 5.5. Did I miss
> >something?
>
> Yeah, you should make you rmailbox mode 660, group mail, for this trick
> to work.
Downer. Tried it with that mode and mailtool still core dumped.
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% whoami
martinh
% ls -l /var/mail
total 48
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Jun 3 10:22 :saved
-rw-rw---- 1 dsc mail 329 Jun 17 09:20 dsc
-rw-rw---- 1 martinh mail 0 Jun 3 12:50 martinh
-rw-rw---- 1 root mail 22234 Jun 24 13:55 root
% ls -l .for*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 martinh sysadmin 13 Jun 25 08:53 .forward ->
/var/mail/dsc
% /usr/openwin/bin/mailtool &
[enable vacation]
%
[1] + Segmentation fault /usr/openwin/bin/mailtool
%
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This is 5.5 Hardware 1/96 Server edition if that helps (fixed maybe).
Also if you accidentally start dtmail instead of mailtool :-), and do the
same thing it hangs. This is probably the wrong thing to do...
M.
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Received on Jun 25 1996
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