Perhaps wrong permissions on smail (runq is a link on it). Under slink, smail had the following permissions (is suid root):
-rwsr-xr-x root/root 301144 1998-10-13 19:01 usr/sbin/smail Just a guess, Martin On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old > hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For > weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my > mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows: > > > runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted > > runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied > > runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied > > I tried changing the permissions on paniclog and its directory, with > no avail. > > I found nothing on the recent mailing list archives about paniclog. I > was running runq as root. > > I have just now installed exim instead of smail. > > Does this look familiar? -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right? - anonymous For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]