> >
> > `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?
Yes, I checked and was running as root. Interestingly, I did 'cd
/usr/var/qmail/queue/remote/0, ls' (still as root) and was able to retrieve
the file. You are right. It only gives the list of addresses that email
was going to.
>
> 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?
I don't think so. Root seems to have all the power except in that one
instance (so far).
> If so, you need the capability bit for "read any file on
> system regardless of owner or permissions" set for your account.
