From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 22 21:32:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA04855 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 21:32:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA04826 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 21:32:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00418; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:05:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Philip Webb cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uucp and mail not queuing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Philip Webb wrote: > I've just installed freeBSD and am trying to set up uucp for mail. > It appears my system is not queuing the mail jobs properly, as > sending test messages by-- mail -v "to-address" yields the error: > "to-address"... Connecting to "nodename" (uucp-b)... > batchmail: Cannot write tempfile I'm not knowledgeable in the ways and means of uucp but this would look like a permissions problem. Make sure the temporary directory (/tmp??) has the proper permissions for your uucp process to put files in it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major