Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:2710 comp.mail.elm:2160 comp.unix.xenix:8830 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!pollux!txsil!steve From: steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: MMDF, Smail and Elm Mailer Summary: check directory permissions under /usr/spool/mmdf/ Message-ID: <260@txsil.lonestar.org> Date: 2 Dec 89 22:15:57 GMT References: <8911202358.AA14298@decwrl.dec.com> <128223@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <5484@cps3xx.UUCP> Reply-To: steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas TX Lines: 21 In article <5484@cps3xx.UUCP> las@frith.UUCP (Larry A. Shields) writes: >I've tried running Mush with SCO UNIX 3.2 and mmdf but when I try to >send mail submit returns a error message "Can't create file" . . . We ran into a similar problem. Here's the solution i found yesterday: check the file permissions under /usr/spool/mmdf/lock. Here's what they should be: 700 /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/ 777 /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/ 777 /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/tmp/ 777 /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/addr/ 777 /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/q.*/ 777 /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/msg/ This information is hidden in the User's Reference manual under QUEUE(F). The directories under /usr/spool/mmdf/lock were also set to 700, possibly by default when we installed the SCO UNIX 3.2 system. I hope this helps -- no guarantee we had the same problem, but we did have the same symptom. -- Stephen McConnel Summer Institute of Linguistics PHONE: 214-709-2418 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road UUCP: ...!{texbell|convex|pollux}!txsil!steve Dallas, TX 75236 Internet: steve@txsil.lonestar.org