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- From: marekp@generic.uucp (Marek Pawlowski)
- Subject: Re: SCO Unix v3.2.2 and Elm v2.3 woes
- Organization: Terra*Net Public Access Unix BBS. (416) 731-{3468,9867}, 237-0308
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 00:09:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep01.000918.3558@generic.uucp>
- References: <1992Aug29.194524.5658@generic.uucp> <1992Aug30.143831.19268@DSI.COM>
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- syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
-
- >marekp@generic.uucp (Marek Pawlowski) writes:
- >> [..My various woes removed..]
- >>submit: [ Permission denied ] Unable to change directory.
- >>submit: message submission aborted
- >
- >This is the well known problem where SCO distributed the directories
- >with the wrong permissions. Run the MMDF script checkup and follow its
- >instructions to change some of the directory permissions. Then Elm will
- >work much better.
-
- Wonderful! It turns out that "checkup" was cleverly hidden from my
- sight by evil little green creatures with fat bellies. The man page for
- it wasn't online, but after shuffling through a couple of thousand pages
- of SCO documentation, I actually found mention of it.
-
- I greatly appreciate your help! As well as from Marc in Ann Arbor, MI.,
- who's email address was zotted out of existance in my tampering with the
- Elm system.
-
- >Secondly, Elm need not be Setuid root. SCO UNIX, being a SysV UNIX,
- >Elm should be setgid mail, with /usr/mail being group mail and permissions
- >775. Thats all Elm needs, there is no reason for it to be setuid root.
-
- It was a wild hunch which I tried out, but was useless anyway.. :)
-
- >> PS: We have MMDF installed (do we really have a choice? :)
- >Yes, you could drop MMDF and switch to sendmail (real one, like
- >
- >IDA Sendmail) or smail 3.1. Or you could stay with MMDF.... Properly
- >configured it does work.
-
- I suppose for the time being, MMDF will still remain active on this
- system. But I do see sendmail in the horizon.. :)
-
- >--
- >========================================================================
- >Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.3PL11
- >Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 2.4 Release: Oct 1,1992
- >syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
-
- Thanks a million! I guess it was a minor case of RTFM (all 10^69
- pages worth :), though somewhat justified. Thanks again!
-
- --
-
- Marek Pawlowski - marekp@terranet.cts.com marekp@generic.uucp
- A genuine inquisitive computer enthusiast. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- OBJobOfferRequest: Sign me up on a programming contract!
-