From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 17:21:52 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 190BC37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.libero.it (smtp3.libero.it [193.70.192.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80CC343F3F for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:21:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmario.tamagnone@libero.it) Received: from ppp-93-220.25-151.libero.it (151.25.220.93) by smtp3.libero.it (7.0.012) (authenticated as gmario.tamagnone@libero.it) id 3EE735C6010EFC90 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 02:21:50 +0200 From: giamma To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 02:21:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308080221.47876.gmario.tamagnone@libero.it> Subject: strange boot-time error 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: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 00:21:52 -0000 Hello to all the list. I have an ugly problem at boot time, maybe in a rc* script. At boot time i can read this lines on the screen: [snip] can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/) : Permission denied. Program mode requires special privileges, e.g. root or TrustedUser. [snip] Now I try to login as normal user: login:giamma password:xxxxx i get the error: can't find root directory (Arrrrgh!) If I login as superuser i have no problem, and i can see that the user directory is present, also the / dir. If I try doing #su giamma I get the error: su:/bin/csh:permission denied. duh! What's happening? Also if I try doing something like #sendmail stop I get the same error at the top. mmm. Let me see. Sure it's a sendmail problem, but where's the mistake? I haven't touched /etc/rc.sendmail, nor /etc/rc.d/sendmail at all. Also /etc/password, /etc/groups look good. I've only tried to modify /boot/loader.conf (hostname, boot verbose, loading modules) but I've not touched sendmail at all! Someone have any idea? I've tried to look at the faq, but I haven't found anything that could fit the problem. What I did? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Greetings, Gianmario.