Re: Mail and news
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> >02/15/96 11:07:54: open_spool: /var/spool/smail/input/0tbD4n-00091DC: lock fail
> >ed: Try again
Could be a "simple" permissions prob. Make sure smail is setuid root. I use sendmail
but I had the same sort of problem with my mail queue at one point. Something like;
-r-sr--r-- 1 root bin 258130 Oct 9 16:09 /usr/sbin/smail
needs to be done. That's a "chmod u+s smail". Just a wild suggestion.
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