You need to chown root.mail /var/spool/mail, then chmod 775 /var/spool/mail
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Ditesh Kumar Shashikant wrote: > Dear all, > > I've tried to setup sendmail to use procmail on RH7.0. All is fine > except that procmail refuses to write to /var/spool/mail with an error > (Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/eggman.lock). The permissions for > /var/spool is (drwxr-xr-x 13 root root) and the permissions for > /var/spool/mail is (drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail). Similarly, when I > try to log into QPopper, I get this error: > > -ERR [SYS/TEMP] Failed to create /var/mail/.eggman.pop with uid 511, gid > 12. Change permissions. > > So clearly, the permission are screwed up, but I can't seem to think how > to correct them. I've tried many suggestions from Google results, like > setting chmod 1777 /var/spool/qmail but the same situation happens > again. Can anybody help? > > The bounced email is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (reason: can't create (user) output file) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/eggman.lock" > procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/eggman" > 550 5.0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't create output > > --g9QFwKp04993.1035647900/mhclinsrv.herbamalaysia.net > Content-Type: message/delivery-status > > Reporting-MTA: dns; yoppers.blahblah.net > Received-From-MTA: DNS; [203.106.151.80] > Arrival-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 23:58:12 +0800 > > Best Regards, > Ditesh Kumar > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
