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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HOST:petunia.hsc.usc.edu[128.125.32.85] PROTOCOL:esmtp PROGRAM:in.smtpd ORIG-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE:1828 IDENT:root ID-METHOD:rfc1413 08/12/1999 17:57:47: [m11F5fG-00273zC] Failed TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TO:postmaster 08/12/1999 17:57:49: [m11F5fG-00273zC] Completed. Donald MacDougall
