From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 09:45:20 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 9E2DB37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3DB743FAF for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:45:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3FGjIJP017500; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:45:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E9C371E.5020504@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:45:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary D Kline References: <20030415163638.GA86393@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20030415163638.GA86393@tao.thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: 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 16:45:20 -0000 Gary D Kline wrote: > 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? Yes. The error messages clearly state that there is a permission problem. Off the top of my head ... check the directories in /var/spool clientmqueue appears to need rwxrwx--- perms with owner/group as smmsp:smmsp -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com