Possible bug with spam permissions

Thu Aug 25 09:05:55 IST 2005

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On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:34 PM Julian Field wrote:

> Don't know what happened to my reply to this. 

It arrived... :-)

> My opinion was this:
> Could you try the modified version on Linux and Solaris please? 

All our MailScanner installations are FreeBSD based... Sorry.

> I
> don't have a FreeBSD box to try it on either. If you want me to, I'll
> put out a beta with the modification in if that's what you want, but
> it will cause grief if it doesn't work on Linux at least.  

The question is: Why could this cause trouble at all? On FreeBSD GID would be (in my case)

6 8006 0

on Linux e.g.

6 6 8006 0

I cannot think of a way this could result in trouble. Yet again: We should test it of course. Hopefully some Linux/Solaris guys can help out.

Regards,
  JP

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