Re: problems with qmail queue directory

Article View: alt.comp.mail.qmail

Article #5

Back to alt.comp.mail.qmail Previous Next

From: Neil W Rickert
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:00

26 lines
1273 bytes

pmahnke@my-deja.com writes:

>I am having problems with my /var/qmail/queue directory.

>I thinks its permissions.

>Can someone tell me what the permissions, group and user should be?

This might be a sendmail permissions problem

	chown root sendmail
	chmod 4555 sendmail


>ps. this is the error from the log file

>Sep 28 00:07:58 baby qmail: 970114078.229489 alert: cannot start:
>unable to switch to queue
> directory
>Sep 28 00:07:58 baby qmail: 970114078.482919 alert: cannot start:
>unable to switch to queue
> directory


>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <8qvtnr$eod@euclid.cs.niu.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <8qthe7$9qj$1@news.entreprises.cegetel.fr> <8qujhl$9qr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 11113b,a513f3656cdfd71b
X-Google-Attributes: gid11113b,public
X-Google-Thread: f4258,a513f3656cdfd71b
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4258,public
X-Google-Thread: 10de99,a513f3656cdfd71b
X-Google-Attributes: gid10de99,public
From: Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: Re: problems with qmail queue directory
Date: 2000/09/28
Message-ID: <8qvtnr$eod@euclid.cs.niu.edu>
X-Deja-AN: 675190712
References: <8qthe7$9qj$1@news.entreprises.cegetel.fr> <8qujhl$9qr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Newsgroups: alt.comp.mail.qmail,comp.mail.sendmail,fr.comp.mail

Reply to Parent Message