smail permissions problem
I have two computers with Debian stable up to date version and smail.
One works fine, but the other gives the following error message in the
smail logfile whenever mail is received. What file is the output file
that it can't open? Working on the assumption that it was the mail
file /var/spool/mail/dmacdoug I have looked for any reason why
permission would be denied and haven't found any. Smail is running
suid root and the permissions on the mail file are -rw-r--r-- and it is
owned by root. I don't know if these things are right or wrong but they
are the same as on the machine that works. Any ideas?
08/12/1999 17:57:47: [m11F5fG-00273zC] Received FROM:dmacdoug@hsc.usc.edu HOST:petunia.hsc.usc.edu[128.125.32.85] PROTOCOL:esmtp PROGRAM:in.smtpd ORIG-ID:<m11F5fG-005o9pC@petunia.hsc.usc.edu> SIZE:1828 IDENT:root ID-METHOD:rfc1413
08/12/1999 17:57:47: [m11F5fG-00273zC] Failed TO:<dmacdoug@medweb.hsc.usc.edu> DIRECTOR:user TRANSPORT:local ERROR:(ERR133) transport local: failed to open output file: Permission denied
08/12/1999 17:57:47: [m11F5fH-00274OC] Received FROM:<+> HOST:medweb.hsc.usc.edu PROTOCOL:bsmtp PROGRAM:smail SIZE:2588
08/12/1999 17:57:47: [m11F5fH-00274OC] Failed TO:dmacdoug DIRECTOR:user TRANSPORT:local ERROR:(ERR133) transport local: failed to open output file: Permission denied
08/12/1999 17:57:47: [m11F5fH-00274OC] mail moved to /var/spool/smail/error/11F5fH-00274OC
08/12/1999 17:57:49: [m11F5fG-00273zC] Sent error FOR:<dmacdoug@medweb.hsc.usc.edu> TO:postmaster
08/12/1999 17:57:49: [m11F5fG-00273zC] Completed.
Donald MacDougall
Reply to: