Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:48:26 -0700 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Subject: Re: sendmail and 2.2.1R not happy Message-ID: <199703312048.NAA17433@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
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Hi, I previously wrote: > I've just installed 2.2.1-RELEASE obtained 970328 from freefall > ... > Mar 29 19:19:39 Sam sendmail[540]: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied > Mar 29 19:19:39 Sam sendmail[540]: LAA04887: SYSERR(UID1): Cannot exec > /usr/libexec/mail.local: Permission denied The problem turned out to be that the permissions for '/' had somehow been set to 750 (don't ask me how, I'm clueless)! When I started adding users to the system it became evident that I had a more serious problem than sendmail failing. So all's well that ends well, I guess. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD
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