Hi.  I wrote to you a while back about the wierd sendmail problem that 
turned out to be a perms problem at the root level.  I think I might have 
a guess of what happened to cause such a thing:

Hi people, I wrote a while back about a "wierd sendmail problem" that 
later turned out to be a permissions problem at the "/" root level.  I 
think I might have a guess of what happened to cause this.  This isn't 
specifically NetBSD-Amiga related, but I'm following back up to the post 
I made quite a whiles back.

the root home directory is:

/root

and in this directory are:

/root/.dotfiles

(such as .login, .cshrc...)

and if one wished to set perms on all of them at once, the obvious thing 
to do is:

chmod perms .*

however, this will also set the same perms onto the / level.  

Also, be careful with setting anything on ".*" (e.g., chown...)

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