smail permissions problem

1999-08-13 Thread dmacdoug
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/ma

Smail permissions

1998-10-15 Thread Mitchell & Valaire Surface
I'm having some problems getting smail to work properly. I can receive mail fine if I run everything as root. When I sign in as a non-root user and then run runq (which is a link to smail) I get the following error message: runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted runq: cannot open /var/