From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 12:14:44 2002 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 20CAA37B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hedwig.ds.psu.edu (hedwig.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7A943E31 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:14:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@hedwig.ds.psu.edu) Received: from hedwig.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hedwig.ds.psu.edu (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6VJF74j000860 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:15:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@hedwig.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200207311915.g6VJF74j000860@hedwig.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: can't send mail: "collect: Cannot write ./dd j000181 (bfcommit) From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:15:07 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have the new machine mostly setup, but it is still unable to send mail. mail -sabc someone@somehere.org at first appears to have succeded, and returns to the shell. Then I get: slytherinttyp1:hawk>collect: Cannot write ./dfg6VE77n7000152 (bfcommit, uid=1000, gid=25): Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg6VE77n7000152, uid=1000: Permission denied rw [1] 153 A web search leads me to believe that this is a sendmail permissions problem (and I did have trouble installing sendmail during make instllworld until I did it single user), but those also seem to suggest that an installwrold will fix it. It doesn't, though. hawk, stranded again -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message