Dear all,

I've tried to setup sendmail to use procmail on RH7.0. All is fine
except that procmail refuses to write to /var/spool/mail with an error
(Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/eggman.lock). The permissions for
/var/spool is (drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root) and the permissions for
/var/spool/mail is (drwxrwxr-x    2 root     mail). Similarly, when I
try to log into QPopper, I get this error: 

-ERR [SYS/TEMP] Failed to create /var/mail/.eggman.pop with uid 511, gid
12.  Change permissions.

So clearly, the permission are screwed up, but I can't seem to think how
to correct them. I've tried many suggestions from Google results, like
setting chmod 1777 /var/spool/qmail but the same situation happens
again. Can anybody help?

The bounced email is:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    (reason: can't create (user) output file)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/eggman.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/eggman"
550 5.0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't create output

--g9QFwKp04993.1035647900/mhclinsrv.herbamalaysia.net
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; yoppers.blahblah.net
Received-From-MTA: DNS; [203.106.151.80]
Arrival-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 23:58:12 +0800

Best Regards,
Ditesh Kumar



-- 
redhat-list mailing list
unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Reply via email to