Re: A few random comments and a little confusion

["t.bedlam" <bedlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 09:59:57PM -0400, rambozo was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

> I'm not quite at the end of my rope on this whole PPP issue, so I'm
> going to be stubborn and not request any help from you guys until I'm
> wallowing in endless confusion.

:)   My feelings exactly.

The spool file, if deleted, will be recreated anew when you get new mail.

-rw-rw----   1 bedlam   mail   43902 Apr 27 22:40 /var/spool/mail/bedlam

We see here: owner bedlam, read/write, group mail, read/write, no privs at
all for "others."  Don't recreate it, let the system do it.  If you do
anyway, make it look like the above. C.f. man chown, man chgrp, man touch,
man chmod.

touch /var/spool/mail/yournamehere
chown yournamehere.mail /var/spool/mail/yournamehere 
 # ^^^^ owner yournamehere, group mail
chmod 660 /var/spool/mail/yournamehere

Mail to root is aliased (man newaliases) to your primary non-privileged
user account. (This was set up at install.) All your daemons that mail you
their status, for instance, will end up in, on my machine, bedlam. root
should not receive mail for security purposes as well. But my system does
tell me, as root, when bedlam has mail. 

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