Mail isn't working

[Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@netpci.com>]

For me this is deja vu, all over again: I had similar problems two
years ago, getting mail up.  

Smail doesn't seem to want to work.  This system has just been brought
up, using a hamm CD, and upgrading twice by apt, first to slink, then
to potato.  Hope that provides a clue.  

This is the kind of messages I am getting that are boring me to death:

> runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted
> runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied
> runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied
> 

Do these say something to any kind fellow user?  I tried changing
permission to the log directory, with no avail.  Twice.

Thanks, 

Alan Davis
-- 
adavis@netpci.com

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