jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) (12/07/90)
A user other than root trying to use elm to mail to another local user invariably fails, the message being: submit: [ Permission denied ] Can't create text file to be queued submit: message submission aborted What's my problem? -- Jean-Pierre Radley NYC Public Access jpr@jpr.com CIS: 72160,1341
syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (12/07/90)
jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes: >A user other than root trying to use elm to mail to another local user >invariably fails, the message being: > submit: [ Permission denied ] Can't create text file to be queued > submit: message submission aborted Ah yes, the usual SCO permissions all wrong problem. Run the MMDF checkout script and you will find that the directories have the wrong permissions as shipped by SCO. Fix that and it will work. -- ===================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235
jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) (12/08/90)
In article <1990Dec7.024112.16857@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes: >jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes: >>A user other than root trying to use elm to mail to another local user >>invariably fails, the message being: > >> submit: [ Permission denied ] Can't create text file to be queued >> submit: message submission aborted >Ah yes, the usual SCO permissions all wrong problem. >Run the MMDF checkout script and you will find that the >directories have the wrong permissions as shipped by SCO. Fix that >and it will work. OK, thanks for that, Syd! Now 'mail' works fine from one user to another on the system, but using 'elm', with 'smail3' installed, is giving me other grief. Any message to a local user, such as "bill", doesn't go to "bill", it gets queued up for a uucp transfer to my neighbor 'murphy', to be routed to: "murphy!uunet!jpradley.jpr.com!bill". 'jpradley' is my site name, 'jpr.com' is my registered domain. 'uunet' doesn't appear in any of my MMDF files except following a '#'. The 'mailer' in my configuration is the default that Configure suggested, "/usr/mmdf/bin/submit". -- Jean-Pierre Radley NYC Public Unix jpr@jpr.com CIS: 72160,1341