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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.

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Originally Posted by RandomTroll (Post 5928193)

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.

Regards