At 12:00 each night, my installation of Mandrake 7.02 makes a security
check on all things.  Sometimes it automatically changes ownership of
files that it thinks are vulnerable or dangerous.  Tonight at 12:00 it
changed all my "Group Unowned Files" to "nogroup" and suddenly I get the
error 

"alert: cannot start: unable to access queue directory"

when I try to run the qmail rc file.

So I manually make the directory accessible, then try to run ./rc again
(from /var/qmail) and get this error:

"alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex"

Am I going to have to reinstall Mandrake with the lowest security setting
to keep it from meddling in my qmail settings?  What the heck is "mutex?"

james

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