On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:41:03AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> > There's your problem. Nobody can list the contents of /var/qmail/control,
> > because the execute bits aren't set. Do a `chmod 755 /var/qmail/control`
> > and everything should work.
>
> Just to be pedantic, The 'r' bit is for listing the directory, but the
> 'x' bit controls access to the files in the directory. So, qmail would
> have been able to list the files but not open them.
petra:~$ ls -ld testing/
dr--r--r-- 2 insyte users 4096 Sep 27 12:18 testing/
petra:~$ ls testing/
/bin/ls: testing/MegabitServiceCenter: Permission denied
petra:~$ chmod 555 testing/
petra:~$ ls -ld testing/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 insyte users 4096 Sep 27 12:18 testing/
petra:~$ ls -l testing/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 insyte users 32 Sep 27 12:18 StupidTestFile
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