I have sendmail set up here at work, and everyone can send email fine, except when I try to send using the good old mail command.. it tells me "Can't create transcript file ./xfg4OGa2S21960: Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg4OGa2S21960, uid=500: Permission denied" I have tried doing chmod 777 on the "/var/spool/mqueue" and it still fails. However when I use pine and set my smtp server to box.domain.com ( the localhosts name ) I am able to send fine. This problem is preventing a webmail client I wrote from sending mail... Any ideas? Thanks, Joe
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Joe Riopel wrote:
I have sendmail set up here at work, and everyone can send email fine, except when I try to send using the good old mail command.. it tells me "Can't create transcript file ./xfg4OGa2S21960: Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg4OGa2S21960, uid=500: Permission denied"
Who is being denied permission? 'mail' or 'sendmail'? I guess if it's queueing (can you have that many vowels together?) it must be sendmail. I don't use sendmail, but I think it's odd that it's using the current directory, and not a full path (as daemons often like to do). I guess I should just defer to someone who knows about sendmail. You could also try calling sendmail directly, instead of using mail, and see if that behaves differently. I always do that in scripts anyway... seems to cut out the middle-man. -Chuck
It's mail and sendmail doing it. I solved this by simply switching to postfix :) -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Homic Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 1:25 PM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Sendmail On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Joe Riopel wrote:
I have sendmail set up here at work, and everyone can send email fine, except when I try to send using the good old mail command.. it tells me "Can't create transcript file ./xfg4OGa2S21960: Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg4OGa2S21960, uid=500: Permission denied"
Who is being denied permission? 'mail' or 'sendmail'? I guess if it's queueing (can you have that many vowels together?) it must be sendmail. I don't use sendmail, but I think it's odd that it's using the current directory, and not a full path (as daemons often like to do). I guess I should just defer to someone who knows about sendmail. You could also try calling sendmail directly, instead of using mail, and see if that behaves differently. I always do that in scripts anyway... seems to cut out the middle-man. -Chuck _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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