On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:53:44PM -0500, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote:
[snip]
> Lemme think here.  If I'm not mistaken, the user that modifies the queue
> is qmailq who owns the qmail-queue program.  Now, on my installation of
> qmail (and so I assume everyone elses) the qmail-queue program's
> permissions are: -rws--x--x .  So, bascially, the qmail-queue program
> executes as root to modify the queue, therefore, permissions on the
> queue directory shouldn't matter.  What group is your qmailq user in? 

qmail-queue doesn't run as root. It runs as user qmailq. What group
this user is in, or what his homedir is, doesn't matter. Permissions
on the binary are relevant indeed.

Greetz, Peter.

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