[CentOS] (Al)pine on CentOS 6

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Tue Mar 26 15:48:23 UTC 2013


Max Pyziur wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> Max Pyziur wrote:
>>>
>>> The alpine mail rpm indicates that it comes packaged with configuration
>>> files (/etc/pine*conf*). However, they aren't there.  Possible?
>>>
>>> Also, how did you get rid of the annoying alpine bug: a message that
>>> keeps flashing - [Folder vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have
>>> 1777 protection]?
>>>
>> I *really* think you ought to ask in those repos, or alpine's mailing
>> list. What's bothering me is it asserting that the "folder vulnerable",
>> then saying that it needs to be world-read/writeable; ours are all 775.
>
> Ok, then.
>
> I find the "users" list on fedoraproject challenging.

Heh, heh. We can be touchy, here, too... but when someone comes in who's
actually read manpages, and googled, before coming here - in other words,
they don't expect us to do their jobs, just help them do it, we usually
try to help.
>
> The stated vulnerability is a known bug in alpine, and it has been there
> for a long time. Many lists have complaints about it, but it doesn't seem
> to get the attention of the developers/maintainers.

Oh. Right. Fixing bugs isn't "sexy", esp. when it's an annoying invalid
message. I wish upstream would do something about that annoying complaint
in my logfiles about "hung task" that tells me how to turn it off....
>
> Likewise, ours are set to 775, inboxes set to 600 (that way dovecot
> doesn't complain).

Sounds good to me.
>
> Thank you for your help.

Sorry I couldn't help more.

    mark




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