[1147] in linux-net channel archive
Re: mh mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gentilin)
Sat Sep 30 17:13:23 1995
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:23:25 -0400
To: jeff@boulder.openware.com
From: gentijo@injersey.com (John Gentilin)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Sorry I am coming into this late, but if you think you have a permission
problem running a program I might have a simple solution. Run strace, its a
great tool. I had a similar problem with popd. What i did was to change
inetd from /usr/sbin/popd to /sbin/strace -o /tmp/popd.trace /usr/sbin/popd.
Whenever someone complained about a problem, I would cat popd.trace. Don't
worry about most of the file, it will fail on something like fopen().
Hope this helps
John Gentilin
gentijo@injersey.com
>According to Jeff Griffith:
>> Thanks for the answer, but I think I've already done this. My mail spool
>> directory looks like:
>>
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 1024 Sep 28 12:31 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 1024 Sep 23 14:46 ../
>> -rw-rw---- 1 bin bin 656 Sep 28 12:31 bin
>> -rw-rw-rw- 1 james mail 943 Sep 26 00:38 james
>> -rw-rw---- 1 jeff mail 5332 Sep 28 16:04 jeff
>> -rw-r----- 1 root mail 0 Sep 25 17:47 root
>>
>> inc will not work for james or jeff but does for root.
>
>I don't know the thread that preceded this (the mailing list is very
>flaky at the moment, reminds me of the niksula situation!)
>
>However, the above is not what a mailspool should look like!
>Try this:
>
>$ ls -la /var/mail
>total 570
>drwxrwxr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Sep 29 10:02 .
>drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 May 13 1994 ..
>-rw-rw---- 1 linux mail 278043 Sep 29 07:06 linux
>-rw-rw---- 1 net mail 52183 Dec 13 1994 net
>-rw-rw---- 1 rob mail 177514 Sep 29 07:06 rob
>-rw-rw---- 1 root mail 0 Sep 27 08:18 root
>
>Rob
>
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