Don't you love having to go back and fix emails with wrong info? =)
On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Tren Blackburn wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Trey Nolen wrote:
>
> > I went ahead and deleted the directory that was giving the errors, and when
> > cron ran again, I got the same error -- except with the directory in the
> > next sequential order. Looks like something is wrong with more than just
> > that one directory.
> > I checked the permissions and all the files are owned by vpopmail with group
> > vchkpw. All the directories have 700 permissions and the files in them have
> > 600.
> > The /var/cache/sqwebmail directory itself is owned by vpopmail with group
> > root and has 755 permissions.
>
> I might be mistaken here, but shouldn't this directory be owned by bin?
> You're telling the cleancache.pl script to run as user bin via the su
> command, however it has no permission to clear out this directory as it's
> owned by vpopmail. Either change the ownership of the directory to be
> vpopmail or change the user cleancache.pl is running as to vpopmail.
>
Directory should be owned by bin, or cleancache.pl should be run as
vpopmail. There. That looks right now. I need more coffee...*grumble*
Tren.
> >
> > Trey Nolen
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Tren
>
> >
> >
> >
> > > > Trey Nolen writes:
> > > >
> > > > > The entire message was at the bottom of my email. I forwarded the
> >
> > > > You received an answer the first time you asked this: try actually
> > looking
> > > > at that file or directory, and see what's in there.
> > > >
> > > > You'll need to provide this additional information.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I appologize if this has been answered before. I never saw the email.
> > > Anyway, to answer your query, the 137856 is a directory. In that directory
> > > are two entries: jm and ri which are both directories.
> > > In each directory is a file in the form of <emailaddress>.authvchkpw
> > > For example, the jm one has [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > In that file is:
> > > 89 89 /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/jmoore/Maildir
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > AUTHFULLNAME=jmoore
> > >
> > > The ri directory contains an almost identical file -- just with a
> > different
> > > email address.
> > >
> > > In the /var/cache/sqwebmail directory there are several of these numbered
> > > directories. Each has similar entries (some have just one entry). None of
> > > these other directories cause the cron error, though.
> > >
> > > Would it be OK to just delete the offending directory? After all, this is
> > > just cache, and the info just wouldn't be found in cache, right?
> > >
> > > Trey Nolen
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Trey Nolen
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Mike Rogers wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> You sure it's not reporting that it is doing it? Cron logs every
> > > event, and
> > > > >> when it happens every few minutes, it will go and log every single
> > > event.
> > > > >> What is the actual error message? That would mostlikely be most
> > > helpful in
> > > > >> fixing it
> > > > >> --
> > > > >> Mike
> > > > >>
> > > > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > > > >> From: "Trey Nolen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > >> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:07 AM
> > > > >> Subject: Fw: Cron <root@mail> /bin/su -c
> > > > >> "/usr/local/share/sqwebmail/cleancache.pl" bin
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> > I posted this a whle back, but didn't get any responses. I thought
> > > I'd
> > > > >> post
> > > > >> > it again to see if anyone has any ideas. Everything *SEEMS* to be
> > > working
> > > > >> > OK, except that I get the message below from cron all the time. It
> > > is
> > > > >> > always the exact same error. Does anyone know if this is something
> > > to be
> > > > >> > concerned about? This is sqwebmail 2.1.1 on a Debian system.
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Thanks for any help!
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Trey Nolen
> > > > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > >> > From: Cron Daemon <root@mail>
> > > > >> > To: <root@mail
> > > > >> > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 8:05 AM
> > > > >> > Subject: Cron <root@mail> /bin/su -c
> > > > >> > "/usr/local/share/sqwebmail/cleancache.pl" bin
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > > /var/cache/sqwebmail/137856: Illegal seek
> > > > >> > >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Sam
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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