On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Todd Lyons wrote:

> daRcmaTTeR wrote on Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:26:58AM -0400 :
> > 
> > Sendmail when trying to send a message from Pine. Pine returns the error 
> > that it's unable create the transcript file - permission denied.
> > it doesn't do this to me as a regular user. ergo the mystery. I can send 
> > fine from Pine, but another user cannot. I "have" searched both the 
> 
> Look in his home directory for a .procmailrc file.  If he has it, make
> sure that the permissions are mode 600, owned by him (Look in
> /var/log/mail/errors for lines that say "Suspicious permissions of
> .procmailrc" or something similar to that.  Then go look inside his
> .procmailrc and make sure that it's working properly.
> 
> Go look at /var/log/mail/errors in general, it might point out what the
> real problem is if it's not procmail.
> 
> Blue skies...         Todd

Todd,

it doesn't appear to be a procmail issue. as I remember it this was in 
issue with this particular version. it's been quite some time since i've 
worked with sendmail so the error information below isn't exactly making 
any sense yet.

============= error information from sendmail ==============

Jun 26 08:10:24 mdw1982 sendmail[1557]: g5QCAOe01557: SYSERR(heather): 
Can't create transcript file ./xfg5QCAOe01557: Permission denied
Jun 26 08:10:57 mdw1982 sendmail[1559]: g5QCAvq01559: SYSERR(heather): 
Can't create transcript file ./xfg5QCAvq01559: Permission denied
Jun 26 08:20:49 mdw1982 sendmail[1574]: g5QCKnQ01574: SYSERR(heather): 
Can't create transcript file ./xfg5QCKnQ01574: Permission denied
Jun 26 08:42:19 mdw1982 sendmail[1690]: g5QCgJb01690: SYSERR(heather): 
Can't create transcript file ./xfg5QCgJb01690: Permission denied
Jun 26 09:15:54 mdw1982 sendmail[1993]: g5QDFsC01993: SYSERR(heather): 
Can't create transcript file ./xfg5QDFsC01993: Permission denied
Jun 26 09:19:21 mdw1982 sendmail[2074]: g5QDJLX02072: SYSERR(heather): 
openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid
Jun 26 09:38:13 mdw1982 sendmail[2147]: g5QDcDK02145: SYSERR(heather): 
openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid
Jun 26 10:11:25 mdw1982 sendmail[2423]: g5QEBPk02421: SYSERR(heather): 
openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid
Jun 26 10:12:00 mdw1982 sendmail[2427]: g5QEC0f02425: SYSERR(heather): 
openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid
 

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daRmaTTeR

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