On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Hugh Sasse wrote:
>
> > but today I have entries in the logfile like:
> >
> > 1999-06-21 09:08:15 10vt0A-0005Te-00 == ###@dmu.ac.uk D=userforward defer
> > (-1): failed to open /home/###/.forward (userforward director): Permission
> > denied (euid=0 egid=1)
> >
> > where ### is hiding the user's login name.
> >
> > This is because the user has his home directory NFS mounted from
> > elsewhere.
>
> ... without root permission, apparently.
Right. OK I can sort that out. Thank you.
>
> > I cannot see anything in the PS version of the manual about
> > this, there is only one index entry for NFS, and that doesn't seem to
> > explain what I need to set to fix this.
>
> Index may be bad (noted for next edition), the the information is there,
> under the "seteuid" option of the forwardfile director.
Thanks. (I appreciate that getting indices right is a real pain.
I just looked and Solaris no longer has the ptx command which
used to create an interesting and useful form of index. But I
digress.)
>
> > What is the correct way to end SMTP sessions into exim? The other admin
> > here was trying to expn (which I had not enabled), and in
> > Sendmail 8.6.12/8.6.12 we could just type quit to end the session.
>
> Eh? That works normally. Can you reproduce this?
>
Yes, but I have tried it on another machine and it works fine!
When I have fixed the root access thing I will re-instate
exim on the machine that failed, (I switched back to the
old sendmail for the time being) and try to get you a transcript
of the failure.
Thank you.
> > Should installing exim have any impact on ZPOP?
>
> No.
Thanks. Well, zpop is a bit old now (1997), so if there is a
newer pop server for free that people would recommend then
I would be glad to hear about that.
>
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> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>
Thank you again
Hugh
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