On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 11:18:07PM +0200, Steffan Hoeke wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 02:17:34PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
> > Clifford Thurber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > >multilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied
> > >
> > >I know that this probably involves a permissions problem but here is where
> > >I am stumped.
> > >Here is are the permissions of /var/log/qmail/smtpd :
> > >
> > >root@cygnus:/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log > ls -l /var/log/qmail/smtpd
> > >total 4
> > >drwxr-xr-x  2 qmaill   qmail        512 Jun 21 15:49 ./
> > >drwxr-xr-x   3 qmaill   qmail        512 Jun 21 15:49 ../
> > 
> > Access to a directory requires access to all of its parent
> > directories. Try:
> > 
> >   ls -ld /var/log/qmail /var/log /var /
> > 
> > -Dave
> Ok, i'm having the same problem, the output of the previous command (on my
> OpenBSD system is:
> drwxr-xr-x  16 root    wheel   512 May  6 13:24 /
> drwxr-xr-x  28 root    wheel   512 May 18 08:30 /var/
> drwxr-xr-x   8 root    wheel  2560 Jun 22 22:50 /var/log/
> drwxr-xr-x   3 qmaill  qmail  2560 Jun 22 22:50 /var/log/qmail
> 
> So, how to fix without breaking anything else ;)

Ok, the /var/log/qmail permissions weren't the problem
/var/qmail/supervise and all in it need to be owned by qmaill as well ;)
 
-- 
http://therookie.dyndns.org

Reply via email to