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From: ccea3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Forwarding UUCP's Mail
Message-ID: <1238@rivm05.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 89 12:27:18 GMT
References: <495@fallst.UUCP>
Reply-To: ccea3@rivm05.UUCP (Adri Verhoef)
Organization: RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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In article <495@fallst.UUCP> tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:
>For the record, the HDB UUCP daemon 'uudemon.cleanu' has as its 
>last line:
>
>	rm -f $MAILDIR/uucp $MAILDIR/nuucp
>
>This explains the disappearance of the mailbox containing the instructions
>to forward the mail.

>There's nothing to explain why this script creates mail to 'uucp' then
>immediately deletes it, though.  8-)

At least it tries to do that.

The script should be run by uucp, possibly upon startup from cron by root
for setting the ulimit:
45 23 * * * ulimit 5000;\
	/bin/su uucp -c "/usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.cleanup" >/dev/null 2>&1
Uucp should *not* have the permission to remove *any* mailfile from
the mailspool-directory.
$ ls -ld /usr/mail
drwxrwxr-x   3 bin      mail         928 Jan 31 13:21 /usr/mail