Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request
From: rush!root@trout.nosc.mil (Bob Ames)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: problems with READING mail from shared directory
Message-ID: <787@rush.cts.com>
Date: 13 Jan 89 04:30:42 GMT
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Original-Date: 6 Jan 89 19:53:38 GMT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 99, message 7 of 17

We're mounting server:/private.SPARC/usr/spool/mail onto /usr/spool/mail
on the clients.

>From the server, I mail something to user.  The file shows up in
/private.SPARC/usr/spool/mail/user with 600 permissions.  From the client,
logged in as user [or root, for that matter], I cannot even 'cat' the
file, even though it is 600.  If I go back to the server and chmod 666 the
file, then from the clients, 'cat' works as does 'mail' to look at the
file.

Is this an NFS bug/feature?  I have not seen anything about this
particular problem with mail.  I'm trying to just READ the mail file from
a client workstation.

Bob Ames
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