Re: Debian-alpha bugs (was: Re: General questions about debian-alpha...)
On Tue 16 Jun 1998, Juan J. Quintela wrote:
> > mailing anything gives the error
> >
> > send-mail: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted
> > send-mail: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied
> > send-mail: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied
>
> I have here the same problem, it appears to be related that smail is
> not setuid root in debian alpha, and runq is called from the mail
> crontab.
>
> I am not sure if it is the correct solution, but making /usr/sbin/smail setuid
> root works in my machine. By the way I use exim in my debian linux
> boxes and it is setuid root. And from the man page:
I use Exim on my Alpha, and that at least works fine.
> a lot of files in /dev and /var have group 41400 ..... I have change
> them to the same values that the debian intel box. (This machine has
> suffered several crashes (related that is my first headless box) and
> this problem can be related with the crashes and not with debian alpha.
No, I have that as well. Looks like a bug in the MAKEDEV script that's
run during installation?
Paul Slootman
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