Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:22:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail ownership Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006261436470.1729-100000@earth.wnm.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006261141080.11500-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote:
> I'm getting failures from sendmail that look like this when trying to send
> mail via a perl script on a mail server. It looks like it's possibly a
> permisions issue. Anyone with some insight as to why sendmail would do
> this?
>
> Jun 26 11:26:02 bsd sendmail[54205]: e5QIQ2x54205: SYSERR(nobody):
> collect: Cannot write ./dfe5QIQ2x54205 (bfcommit, uid=65534): Permission denied
>
>
> FreeBSD 4.0-Stable
> sendmail 8.10
I'd say you have sendmail running as a user ('nobody' apparently) that
has no write access to /var/spool/mail. Change its ownership to the
appropriate user.
hth
-ac
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