From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 13:19: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB8137BCBB for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:18:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e5QKMOl43857; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:22:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:22:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail ownership In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message