Ahh, 

Thanks for the info...

--Jerry
> On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 02:58 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
> 
>> This morning when I tried to send some mail I was kept getting failure
>> messages.
>> 
>> Reading mail was OK.
>> 
>> Mail log asserted localhost had refused connection. After some putzing
>> around I noticed that "/" was owned by me and had all permissions
>> turned on!
>> 
>> System and System/Library seem to have suffered a similar fate. I
>> started
>> getting mail failures at about the same time I installed
>> the"eUSBSmartmedia"
>> upgrade package.
>> 
>> I changed the owner/permissions of "/" to
>> drwxr-xr-x  51 root  admin  1734 Dec  3 13:56 /
>> 
>> That seemed to get mail going again, ( I set Don't Blame Sendmail )
>> 
>> Could someone :) email a copy of a long directory listing of "/" and
>> also
>> include the owner/permissions for the /System/Library directory?
> 
> Jerry,
> 
> Run the Repair Privileges tool in Disk Utility instead.  It's under the
> First Aid tab.  You can copy the log out of the display window and save
> it in case you have some unique privs settings on your box.
> 
> Phil Burk
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