Subject: [UUCP] UUXQT can't spawn rnews/rmail after restore From: jgeorge@whiffer.atl.ga.us (Joe George) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 07:12:49 GMT
Hi all,
Help! I have an easy one, I think. I backed up and restored my Linux (99.12)
partition to add about 30MB to it. Ever since I've restored it, I can not
get uuxqt to work. uucico works, and feeds the items into /usr/spool/uucp,
but when I run uuxqt I get the following failure:
uuxqt whiffer uucp (1993-09-30 06:42:16.76 289) Executing X.whiffer1867 (rmail jgeorge)
uuxqt whiffer uucp (1993-09-30 06:42:16.77 289) ERROR: ixsspawn: Permission denied
uuxqt whiffer uucp (1993-09-30 06:42:16.77 289) Will retry later (X.whiffer1867)
uuxqt whiffer news (1993-09-30 06:42:17.12 289) Executing X.whiffer1869 (rnews)
uuxqt whiffer news (1993-09-30 06:42:17.13 289) ERROR: ixsspawn: Permission denied
uuxqt whiffer news (1993-09-30 06:42:17.14 289) Will retry later (X.whiffer1869)
I do not know what permissions the errors are referring to. uuxqt runs suid
(reinstalling the uucp binaries don't help) and rnews and rmail can be run
by hand from the root account.
Everything APPEARS to have restored okay, but for some reasons some owner
information was not restored correctly. The binaries in /usr/lib/uucp are
owner uucp.root, and /usr/spool's rw permissions are, as best as I can tell,
alright, and changing them does not help.
Email replies gratefully appreciated!
Joe
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