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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mail problem Date: 27 May 1996 17:50:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ocq1d$bko@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31A59677.1A48@terem.ru> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E bob <bob@terem.ru> wrote: > bob:[14:49] /var/mail/ echo subj | mail -s Test bob > > bob:[14:49] /var/mail/ : Permission denied /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/libexec/mail.local must be setuid root, i.e.: chmod 04555 /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/libexec/mail.local chown root /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/libexec/mail.local Since you don't know what you have done, there's a large risk that you have damaged further file permissions. If you've got the source code around, it's perhaps best to recompile and reinstall the entire system, so all permissions of standard files and directories will be corrected. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)