From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>
To: Margaret BRIERTON <margaret@retriever.com.au>
Cc: gnats-devel@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: problems
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:47:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10107102145120.24641-100000@sys4>
References: <3B4BA348.29CBF507@retriever.com.au>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q3/msg00024.html

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, 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

Solaris 5.6:

sys4:/vega/1/rel/bin> ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail
-r-sr-x--x   1 root     bin       233288 Jul 15  1997 /usr/lib/sendmail

Linux: (Debian)

timshel:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jun 29 22:36 /usr/lib/sendmail
-> ../sbin/smail
timshel:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/smail
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       320476 Apr 30 16:54 /usr/sbin/smail


> What platform your using
> 
> ls -l bugs.log

sys4:/vega/1/rel/bin> ls -l
/usr/local/share/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-adm/bugs.log
-rw-rw-rw-   1 gnats    sdi      3750621 Jul 10 15:58
/usr/local/share/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-adm/bugs.log

Make sure bugs.log is 666 permissions. It's just a copy of the email
received by gnats.

...RickM...