From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 20:12:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shorty.ahpcns.com (joemoore-host.dsl.visi.com [209.98.246.61]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D00A4208 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:12:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ahpcns.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shorty.ahpcns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35C63A327 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:12:24 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <38990028.45FFFE3E@ahpcns.com> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 04:12:24 +0000 From: jomor Organization: ahpcns X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: mail problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When some users connect to pick up mail on a particular 3.4-RELEASE server (new install and users, running qpopper and postfix) the attempt fails with the console error message : Jan 31 15:56:11 gato popper[12014]: gordy@[10.0.1.2]: -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it? If I "chmod go+w mail" everything works, but none of the other servers need these extra permissions. The mail directory was moved to /usr following the install (tarred and untarred) and there is a link to it from /var. It's owned by root, group is mail. What'd I mess up? TIA ...jgm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message