On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
After doing upgrade from woody to sarge sendmail stopped being able to accept messages for local delivery: $ telnet mail.tarunz.org 25 [...] . 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfj8HJ2MR1021343 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=101): Permission denied Connection closed by foreign host.
Make sure you don't have any stray sendmail processes from before the upgrade - I've infrequently seen a sendmail process not properly stop That would explain your error message
To make delivery work I had to change permissions for /var/spool/mqueue from drwxr-s--- to drwxrwsrwx Thanks to kuttler of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for validating his local queue permissions on a working sarge sendmail. He said it's a local admin tweak as well, it didn't work out of the box.
nope, the permissions were correct - something else, like an old daemon process is at fault: This is what I have on all the sendmail boxen here, at work, and home: $ ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue drwxr-s--- 10 smmta smmsp 4096 Aug 30 2004 /var/spool/mqueue -- Rick Nelson * Knghtbrd pelts wichert with NERF darts * wichert notes there are no ICBM nerfs yet and ignores kngtbrd <Knghtbrd> wichert - just wait, after seeing the NERF gatling guns, ICBMs are not far off (just pump the damned thing for an hour or two is all...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]