Virginia Chism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am still a newbie and unable to find a lot of things I think my qmail
> should have. Some things I can find, but not where they should be. At any
> rate, when suggestions come up as quoted below, I try them out and often
> discover hidden elements.
Indeed, qmail frequently works this way. Browsing the qmail-control man page
and idly following man page references from there can lead to all sorts of
interesting discoveries.
> When I tried this one,
>
> `find /var/qmail/queue/remote -type f` ?
> the returned message was:
>
> /var/qmail/queue/remote/0/277955: Permission denied.
That was my (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) suggestion. It doesn't tell you a
whole lot of useful information -- only the number of messages currently in
the queue which are bound for remote recipients. It's information easily
grepped from the output of qmail-qstat or qmail-qread anyways.
> I guess my question now is, what permission is higher than root?
On traditional Unices, none -- are you positive you were running as root?
There's a possible alternate explanation as well: are you on a system which
is completely capability-based, so that the account "root" (UID 0, anyways) is
not special? If so, you need the capability bit for "read any file on
system regardless of owner or permissions" set for your account.
Charles
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