Mark Weaver wrote:

> Wait...I'm confused here. How is it that linuxconf has changed
> anything? Let alone the permissions on an entire directory so that it
> doesn't have the proper read/write/exec permissions. All Linuxconf
> does/is, is an interface with which to configure the system. It's
> something that people need to accomplish this.
>

Yes it is strange but Linuxconf does a permission check and prompts you to change it to
755.

> .
> >
> >       linuxconf is the worst thing since sliced processed cheese. :)
> > The proper perms/owner/group on /var/spool/mqueue should be:
> >
> > drwxrwxr-x    2 root     mail         3.0k Dec  2 1997 mqueue/
> >

Okay, I made the changes as above.  Hopefully that will clear up the problem.


> >       You'll need to go into the lionuxconf scripts and fix this
> > ridiculous need for it to change the perms to a state of inoperability;
> > which you are on your own.  Perhaps Mandrake would like to release a fix,
> > and/or might already have.  The obvious fix being 'rpm -e linuxconf'. :)
>

Will do.  Thanks for the reply.

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