Thanks to the following who responded..
Robert L. McMillin <rlm_at_syseca-us.com>
Michael Matthews <matthewm_at_sgate.com>
Alan Rollow <alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com>
Richard L. Eisenman <eisenman_at_tricity.wsu.edu>
Olle Eriksson <olle_at_cb.uu.se>
Gernot Salzer <salzer_at_logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Sheila Hollenbaugh <shollen_at_valhalla.cs.wright.edu>
Anne Hammond <hammond_at_solarz.Colorado.EDU>
Jim Neeland <neeland_at_madmax.hrl.hac.com>
My original question..
>For the past few months, the mailing system for our Alpha has been
>running quite smoothly, until now.
>It seems it that it sends this error message below:
> ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
><bonn_at_durian.usc.edu.ph> (unrecoverable error)
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>binmail: opening /usr/spool/mail/bonn -: Permission denied
>binmail: creating dead.letter -: Permission denied
>554 <bonn_at_durian.usc.edu.ph>... Service unavailable
>I know that they are permission-based problems, however I have already
>checked the permissions and it seem just fine.
>My permissions are:
>From / directory:
>drwxrwxrwx 30 root system 1024 Sep 6 16:57 usr
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 7 Nov 23 1994 var -> usr/var
>From /usr directory:
>lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 12 Nov 23 1994 spool -> ../var/spool
>drwxr-xr-x 17 root system 512 Dec 2 13:42 var
>From /usr/spool directory:
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 7168 Jan 12 22:36 backup
>drwxr-xr-x 4 root system 512 Nov 23 1994 cron
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 2048 Jun 8 1995 lmxnone
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 May 23 1995 lmxnul
>drwxrwxr-x 2 uucp uucp 512 Aug 27 11:19 locks
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 Jan 11 18:32 lpd
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 4 Jan 13 00:07 lpd.lock
>drwxrwxrwt 3 root mail 9216 Jan 13 00:50 mail
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 1536 Jan 13 01:02 mqueue
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 Mar 17 1995 news
>drwxrwxr-x 14 uucp uucp 512 Aug 27 08:08 uucp
>What more have I missed?
Actually, what I did was just a temporary solution... just changed the
permissions of all users at the /usr/spool/mail to 622.
However, I am hopeful that there will be a better way to get around that
problem than that...and besides, I will be upgrading to a newer OS version
and install from scratch.
Best regards,
Bonn
:)
Received on Tue Mar 25 1997 - 22:57:34 NZST