Chris Tolley writes:
> sed s/\:1001\:/\:new_GUD\: assign. >assign.whatever
...
> Just in case you didn't know, you use \ to "escape" the character so
> that the command line doesn't try to interpret it. The : means "null" and
> is used in shell scripting for "doing nothing"
You don't need to esc
Of course, don't forget to run qmail-newu after making changes to your
assign file.
-CT
> -Original Message-
> From: spoon fork [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:52 AM
> To: Dave Sill
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: deferral:
&
Hi,
I think I found the problem. In our old machine, the lists of users are
kept in a file assign. in /var/qmail/users. In the old
system,
the files look like this (a snapshot):
=:alias:1000:1001:/home/mailhome/j/jimmy:::
=0:alias:1000:1001:/home/mailhome/0/0:::
=007:alias:1000:1001:
Dave Sill wrote:
> Are you using a virtual user set-up? Is "din91" listed in the
> /etc/passwd? How is mail getting to /home/mailhome/d/din91?
>
> >From the error message and the ls output above, it seems that delivery
> is *not* occuring as user "alias", which is the only user with access
> to
spoon fork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Pardon my ignorance, but I get this:
>
>[root@www din91]# ls -ld / /home /home/mailhome /home/mailhome/d
>/home/mailhome/d/din91
> 4 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jul 5 05:56 //
> 4 drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Jul 11 17:39 /h
Make sure some freak program hasn't changed all the ownerships on those
mailboxes (ie ls -l /home/mailhome/a or whatever and check the files are
owned by their respective owners). Also try a killall -HUP tcpserver or
inetd (depending on what you use), in case it is somehow managed to lock all
the
Dave,
Pardon my ignorance, but I get this:
[root@www din91]# ls -ld / /home /home/mailhome /home/mailhome/d
/home/mailhome/d/din91
4 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jul 5 05:56 //
4 drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Jul 11 17:39 /home/
4 drwx-- 40 aliasno
spoon fork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jul 11 11:42:31 www qmail: 963286951.576043 delivery 8: deferral:
>Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/d/din91:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/
What does:
ls -ld / /home /home/mailhome /home/mailhome/d /home/mailhome/d/din91
show?
-Dave
