I do not think your problem is permissions. See note below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Eugene Davis) writes:
> 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 ^^^^^ Why is something trying to access /var/log/smail/ if you are using exim? I do not use either smail or exim. On my system runq is a shell scrip which calls "sendmail -q". Perhaps smail did not clean up after itself when you removed it? > 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? -- *********************** Running Debian Linux *********************** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * ************* pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? *************/ --