>Number:         2959
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       The permissions on /var/mail get reset to 0755 by >make install
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 23 13:20:01 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brian Grayson
>Organization:
	Parallel and Distributed Systems
	Electrical and Computer Engineering
	The University of Texas at Austin
>Release:        Nov 23
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD marvin 1.2 NetBSD 1.2 (MARVIN) #1: Tue Oct 1 21:46:42 CDT 1996 bgrayson@marvin:/a/orac/home/orac/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/MARVIN i386


>Description:
	At some point, doing a 'make install' in /usr/src would
	clobber the permissions on /tmp/ and /var/mail/ (leading
	to elm not being able to create its lock files, etc.). 
	The /tmp/ was fixed, but the /var/mail/ situation is not
	fixed.

	(I checked the bugs database, and didn't see this
	mentioned there.  I thought I had seen traffic about this
	on one of the mailing lists, but had already deleted the
	messages.)

	
>How-To-Repeat:
	ls -ld /var/mail/; cd /usr/src; make install; ls -ld /var/mail/
	  (or, cd /usr/src/etc && make DESTDIR=/ distrib-dirs, for
	  the make install command.)
>Fix:
	Change line 1458 of /usr/src/etc/mtree/4.4BSD.dist to
	also contain mode=01777 (That's the right mode for
	/var/mail, right?)
	
>Audit-Trail:
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