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Old 11-20-2018, 06:36 PM   #1
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Why would the permissions of /var/spool/mqueue have changed?


When I tried to send a message this evening, it failed, sendmail logged
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can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied
. I've been sending mail for years without this happening; I sent some this morning. I haven't installed a new version of sendmail, or any software today.
 
Old 11-21-2018, 02:07 AM   #2
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When I tried to send a message this evening, it failed, sendmail logged . I've been sending mail for years without this happening; I sent some this morning. I haven't installed a new version of sendmail, or any software today.
You didn't say your distro, but if it's Slackware like in your profile, the permissions should be:
Code:
drwx------ 4 root mail 315392 Nov 21 09:29 /var/spool/mqueue/
Could be that you mount /var separately and somehow it's corrupted resulting in a read-only partition.
Check the logs to see if that's the case.


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