RE: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/s/simonyjh:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/

2000-07-11 Thread Paul Jarc
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

RE: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/s/simonyjh:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Tolley
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: &

Re: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/s/simonyjh:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/

2000-07-11 Thread spoon fork
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:

Re: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/s/simonyjh:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/

2000-07-11 Thread spoon fork
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

Re: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/s/simonyjh:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/

2000-07-11 Thread Dave Sill
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

RE: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/s/simonyjh:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/

2000-07-11 Thread Brett Randall
> Subject: deferral: > Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/s/simonyjh:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/ > > > Hi, > > I'm new to qmail so I don't know how to solve the problems above. > We have about > 1000 users who access their mailboxes through > qmail-pop3d. All this day, n

Re: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/s/simonyjh:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/

2000-07-11 Thread spoon fork
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

Re: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/s/simonyjh:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/

2000-07-11 Thread Dave Sill
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

deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/home/mailhome/s/simonyjh:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/

2000-07-11 Thread spoon fork
Hi, I'm new to qmail so I don't know how to solve the problems above. We have about > 1000 users who access their mailboxes through qmail-pop3d. All this day, none of the e-mail go to their mailboxes which is in a mail directoy. maillog says: Jul 11 11:42:31 www qmail: 963286951.551808 deliv