From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Curtis Ireland To: Margaret BRIERTON , gnats-devel@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: problems Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:40:00 -0000 Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010711133721.00a50ec0@rigel.solidum.com> References: <000a01c108e4$e57e2620$ce01a8c0@ns.isp.net> <3B4A7C60.FC11A730@retriever.com.au> <3B4BA348.29CBF507@retriever.com.au> X-SW-Source: 2001-q3/msg00035.html You do realize that sendmail usually runs as user mail. Make sure your bugs.log is writable by the mail user. What I did was create a separate directory specifically for the log owned by user mail so that the log file can be created. The down side to this was that the file was created as owned by user mail in group mail and file permissions 600. -C At 10:52 AM 2001/07/11 +1000, Margaret BRIERTON wrote: >Hi > >We're having problems at the moment with file creation and i would be very >grateful if someone would mail me back with the answers to the below >questions. We need to have this up and running by the end of the week so >it's quite urgent. > >Could someone perform the following and please tell me what the result is: > > >ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail > >What platform your using > >ls -l bugs.log > > >I would really appreciate any feedback > >Thank you > >Margaret -- Curtis Ireland - cireland@solidum.com Solidum Systems - http://www.solidum.com (T) (613)724-6004 x284 - (F) (613)724-6008