I had 'chmod'ed it to 0 per "REMOVE.binmail" (in <qmail>/doc) step 2, as part
of the INSTALL instructions.
Then I got this message from my cron job:
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23 Sep 04:02:01 ntpdate[29031]: step time server 192.6.38.127 offset 1.067004
sec
/usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily: /bin/mail: Permission denied
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Patrick Berry wrote:
> On 9/23/99 at 5:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Campos de Carvalho)
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had the thought:
>
> > On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Glenn Crownover wrote:
> >
> > > Almost running smooth as silk here! Just one last thing...
> > >
> > > What is the recommended replacement in a qmail environment (using
> > > Maildir now!) for /bin/mail? I have cron jobs wanting to use it (among
> > > many other apps).
> >
> > I don't remember for sure what's the real utility of /bin/mail.
> >
> > I'm guessing that you want to send mails.
> >
> > The program that you must use is /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject.
> > There is a nice man page about it.
> >
> > Please somebody confirm this for me.
> >
> > Thank you a lot.
>
> I don't think you need to replace /bin/mail. I have a RedHat 5.2 box with
> sendmail removed and /bin/mail works just fine with qmail. Did you remove
> /bin/mail yourself? Is it not working now?
>
> Pat
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