Re: Zmailer and Majordomo troubles

[Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> 	Hmm..  Add "majordomo" into group "zmailer" at /etc/groups.
> 	That should do it by making Majordomo to be a "trusted" sender,
> 	which can "fake" emails by free fill..

Ok, that's the first I've seen of the zmailer group, I just had to create
it, is there anything else, users or files, that should be in that group? 

> > And I'm still having a nagging problem with mailbox not preserving 
> > accessed time so user's new mail isn't reported. 
> 
> 	I am mystified by this.  It SHOULD preserve them, but why it
> 	does not ?  Should the access time be reset, after the file
> 	is closed ?  (never mind that it is not READ after the access-
> 	time reset has been done, only written, but the fd was opened
> 	for read/write.. ... it does work at Sun Solaris 2.4, in this
> 	form, though..)
> 
> 	What operating system do you use ?

Linux. I believe I've seen this problem with kernels 1.3.(57|71|74). 

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