From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 09:36:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6D537B401 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB7543FA3 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:36:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h3FGacKk001992 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id h3FGadj5086423 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:36:38 -0700 From: Gary D Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20030415163638.GA86393@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 16 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Subject: why can't sendmail write? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:36:42 -0000 After having my DNS server fail late yesterday, and several times reboot, I find that something is wrong with some permission involving sendmail. Apr 15 01:09:12 sage sendmail[881]: h3F89CTR000881: SYSERR(admin): collect: Cannot write ./dfh3F89CTR000881 (bfcommit, uid=1001, gid=25): Permission denied Apr 15 01:09:12 sage sendmail[881]: h3F89CTR000881: SYSERR(admin): queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfh3F89CTR000881, uid=1001: Permission denied Apr 15 09:12:25 sage su: kline to root on /dev/ttyp1 Apr 15 09:26:36 sage sendmail[1960]: h3FGQaHJ001960: SYSERR(kline): collect: Cannot write ./dfh3FGQaHJ001960 (bfcommit, uid=1002, gid=25): Permission denied Apr 15 09:26:36 sage sendmail[1960]: h3FGQaHJ001960: SYSERR(kline): queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfh3FGQaHJ001960, uid=1002: Permission denied is what I found is messages. The uid=1001 is, as evident, "admin"; uid=1002, is "kline", and gid=25 is smmsp. Can anybody clue me in on what I need to fix? thanks much, gary PS: I did check at the sendmail src, queue.c, but it didn't give me many ideas. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix