Re: /var/spool/mqueue problems

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Paul Mezzanini wrote:
>Ok, this is really starting to bug me.  I recently built the new mail
>server here.  Somewhere along the line I seem to have broken
>/var/spool/mqueue.  Whenever any local user/process tries to send mail
>(e.g. cron)  I get this error:
>
>queuename: Cannot create "qfEAA03518" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=9):
>Permission denied
>
>Now, I can fix it by making /var/spool/mqueue 777, but then I have this
>nifty security hole there and newaliases yells at me about it to boot.

chown root.mail /var/spool/mqueue

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