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From: jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Problem with /bin/bellmail on AIX 3.1
Keywords: AIX
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.161907.13020@turnkey.tcc.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 16:19:07 GMT
References: <1790@inews.intel.com>
Reply-To: jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA
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In article <1790@inews.intel.com> echan@scdt.intel.com (Eldon Chan ~ ) writes:

[ mail directory is NFS mounted ]

>It appeared to me that bellmail has problem writing
>to a NFSed directory...
 
Yup, interesting since this is also the case with AIX 1.2, guess its a family
sort of problem :-}. The problem, I believe, is that bellmail is suid root
so we have the "feature" in NFS where root=nobody and therefore it can't
write the file. At least this has been my assumption although I never have
spent any time really tracking it down for certain.

Seems like your solution of forwarding to the NFS host is the best alternative.
Anybody know what Sun themselves does about this or whether or not they have
the same problem??

Disclaimer: I don't speak for my employer...


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