Subject: Re: /var/mail/simons created with mode 660: Why?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Simons <simons@cys.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/31/1999 13:14:24 
>>>>> Frederick Bruckman writes:

 > /var/mail should have the sticky bit set:

 fredb-> ls -al /var/mail
 > total 2
 > drwxrwxrwt   2 root   wheel  512 May 31 03:51 .
 > [...]

That did the trick. After setting /var/mail to 1777, the mailbox file
is created correctly.

Thanks for your help!

	-peter