Re: A simple question regarding watch and mqueue

[Larry Jones]

Sarwat Husain writes:
> 
> $ queuename: Cannot create "qfPAA20133" in
> "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=1015): Permission denied
> 
> The permissions on the directory are:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  bin  512 Sep  6 13:37
> /var/spool/mqueue

That would tend to indicate that there's something wrong with sendmail.

> Sendmail is present but not running in daemon mode. I
> get mail from my nightly backup scripts etc just fine
> so there's no question that Sendmail/mail is working.

The notify file just uses "mail", so it's almost certainly a mail or
sendmail problem of some sort.

-Larry Jones

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