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Re: Mail System Broken
> I've had some problems on my system.... One of the things that is "broken"
> is ZMailer.
It looks like your /var/spool/mail directory ownership, and/or
protection is broken.
I do usually run postoffice with protection 1777, which, while
allowing anybody to create any files in there, does not require
the system to run setuid/setgid programs for email access.
> I'm getting the following error messages in /var/log/scheduler. This is
> happening for, as near as I can tell, every user on the system.... (There's
> about 400.)
>
> 19970802124913 /etc/zmailer/bin/ta/mailbox: 331815/1206//error2 can't
> dotlock "/var/spool/mail/stuart": Permission denied (this is abnormal,
> investigate!)
>
> Any ideas? Please help if you can.
>
> TIA,
> Kevin Traas
/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>