mail problem

[Brad J Zoltick]

MAIL BUG INVOLVING SUNs and SGI machines:

We have a small network of Suns and Sgi machiness. On the
Suns(SUNOS4.1.1), we have mounted the /usr/spool/mail directory
on all the Suns to create a common spooling directory for mail.

Trying this same idea on the SGI(IRIX 3.3.1) machines fails. The
problem arises from the ownership of the files in /usr/spool/mail,
(linked to /usr/mail on the SGI machines) becoming owned by daemon
rather than the recipient.

Exporting the file system with root access does not solve the
problem.  

Has anyone tried this with their network of Suns and Irises and
succeeded?  This must be a common approach on small networks
one would think, barring the security problems arising from
allowing NFS mounts.

Brad Zoltick
National Institutes of Health

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