Hi Ben!

On Tuesday 10 September 2002 23:47, Ben Kennish wrote:
> Hi Joey,
>
> Saturday, September 7, 2002, 4:49:51 AM, you wrote:
> > What specific rights does the /var/spool/mail uses?
> > I've check the directory and it gives me the following:
> >
> > #] ls -l
> > drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    admin        4096 Sep  7 09:40 at
> > drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    admin        4096 Sep  7 09:40 cron
> > drwxrwxr-x    2 admin    admin        4096 Sep  7 09:40 mail
> > drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    admin        4096 Sep  7 09:40 mqueue
>
> I have this too.
>
> > Given the user rights, I tried to telnet my port 25 and sent a message
> > to the user I created but it gives me the following error:
> >
> > 451 4.0.0 Can't create transcript file ./xfg873P3f03593: Permission
> > denied
>
> I have never seen this before
>
> > The "mail" directory is denying the mail to be delivered to the said
> > directory.
>
> In what way is it denying the mail to be delivered?

Here's the error:
"451 4.0.0 Can't create transcript file ./xfg873P3f03593: Permission denied"

> > Tried to changed it as root and solved the problem.
>
> How exactly did you change it?

I changed the owner to be as "root"

>
> > My question is, it this the right way to make it work? or I have
> > something to tweak in the configuration file?
>
> You shouldn't really have to tweak it.
>
> > TIA.
> >
> > Joey

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