From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 12:48:36 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 8A06837B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:48:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.emscoelectric.com (freebsd.emscoelectric.com [209.223.6.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4275743E09 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:48:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@emscoelectric.com) Received: from freebsd.emscoelectric.com (root@localhost) by freebsd.emscoelectric.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g6AJlVC0014763 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:47:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@emscoelectric.com) Received: from tech2 (match.crshjnke.com [209.223.6.24]) by freebsd.emscoelectric.com (8.12.5/8.12.3) with SMTP id g6AJlKTB014752; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:47:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@emscoelectric.com) From: "Freebsd@emsco" To: "Roger Williams" Cc: Subject: RE: Wierd MAil error not so obvious Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:49:20 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020711040726.R71474-100000@edo.naviservers.net> 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 So you have upgraded... to 4.6? Remember sendmail no longer runs as root. Check usr/src/updating smmsp is the new user for sendmail double check var/spool/mque to be owned by smmsp. See if that helps. Kenny -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Roger Williams Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:09 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Wierd MAil error not so obvious Paul, Thanks, but i understand that, i was wondering what dirs that might be? /var/sppol/mqueu or clientmque..etc I tried changing both with no success. Roger Roger Williams wrote: > > Hello all, > > Ever since a recent upgrade I am getting the following error in my > maillog: > > collect: Cannot write ./dfg6AIQeG04787 (bfcommit, uid=1599): > Permission denied > > Has anyone seen this before? Google has little info on this. > > Roger Seems like you have the wrong permissions/owner set for some direc- tory/files that are used in the mailhandling process. For changing these take a look at 'man chmod' and 'man chown'. This is though just a hunch as I haven't got this error you're describing myself. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message