runq messages

1999-10-03 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows: runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted

Re: runq messages

1999-10-03 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm not using smail so I can't check this myself, but you might take a look at /etc/suid.conf. If there's an entry for the file, or the directory containing it, then suidmanager will reset the ownership and permissions during the cron.daily run. On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:10:06PM +1000, Alan

Re: runq messages

1999-10-03 Thread Martin Fluch
Perhaps wrong permissions on smail (runq is a link on it). Under slink, smail had the following permissions (is suid root): -rwsr-xr-x root/root301144 1998-10-13 19:01 usr/sbin/smail Just a guess, Martin On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I am sure that my system is in a bad

Re: runq messages

1999-10-03 Thread W. Paul Mills
I do not think your problem is permissions. See note below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Eugene Davis) writes: I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For weeks now I have been living with dozens of