| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Moriah
Veteran
Joined: 27 Mar 2004
Posts: 1815
Location: Warsaw KY US
|
 Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:00 pm Post subject: sendmail: collect: Cannot write ... Permission denied-SOLVED |
 |
|
I am getting errors when receiving email on a new server running sendmail. The log looks like:
| Code: |
Jun 9 15:40:01 rcvbox sm-mta[31606]: p59Je0f0031606: SYSERR(root): collect: Cannot write ./dfp59Je0f0031606 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=209): Permission denied
Jun 9 15:40:01 rcvbox sm-mta[31606]: p59Je0f0031606: from=<rj@sendingdomain.com>, size=576, class=0, nrcpts=1, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=xxxxxx-5.iglou.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
|
and my /var/spool directory looks like:
| Code: |
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 72 May 30 12:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 145 May 1 13:12 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 19 10:10 .keep
drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 58 Jun 7 14:56 clientmqueue
drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 70 Apr 27 00:33 cron
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 38 Apr 27 00:32 mail
drwxr-xr-x 2 smmsp root 38 May 30 12:17 mqueue
|
I have another machine running sendmail just fine, but I can't figure out where the perm error lies. It would be nice if sendmail put the full path in the error message. 
Can anybody help me with this? 
_________________
The MyWord KJV Bible tool is at http://www.elilabs.com/~myword
Foghorn Leghorn is a Warner Bros. cartoon character.
Last edited by Moriah on Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:47 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
jhardin
n00b
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 28
|
| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:38 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Try changing ownership of /var/spool/mqueue to root. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Moriah
Veteran
Joined: 27 Mar 2004
Posts: 1815
Location: Warsaw KY US
|
| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:47 am Post subject: |
|
|
I'm sorry. I forgot about this stale post. I sloved this so long ago I don't even remember what the soloution was. 
_________________
The MyWord KJV Bible tool is at http://www.elilabs.com/~myword
Foghorn Leghorn is a Warner Bros. cartoon character. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
zeroeth
n00b
Joined: 11 Jul 2012
Posts: 1
|
| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
it looks like /var/spool/mqueue didn't have write permissions for the group
chmod g+w /var/spool/mqueue got rid of the permissions denied error for me |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
lgt42
n00b
Joined: 07 Jan 2013
Posts: 1
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
| zeroeth wrote: | it looks like /var/spool/mqueue didn't have write permissions for the group
chmod g+w /var/spool/mqueue got rid of the permissions denied error for me |
Same thing for me with default installation of sendmail ( 8.14.4 as of today ), procmail, m4, fetchmail. It was necessary to exec the chmod g+w /var/spool/mqueue to get mail sent correctly.
Thanks and regards. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Networking & Security
