Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:2788 unix-pc.uucp:110 comp.sys.att:6255 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwvax!rutgers!att!icus!rush!bob From: bob@rush.howp.com (Bob Ames) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,unix-pc.uucp,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: 3B1 error message "chmod failure of status file" Keywords: 3B1 UA HoneyDanBeer UUCP status .status Message-ID: <960@rush.howp.com> Date: 27 Apr 89 20:41:16 GMT References: <1225@novavax.UUCP> Reply-To: bob@rush.cts.com (Bob Ames) Organization: NORML, Escondido Branch Lines: 47 In article <1225@novavax.UUCP> rwright@novavax.UUCP (Ronald K. Wright) writes: >When sending electronic mail using the 3B1 3.51 with HDB from the store and >the electronic mail package from AT&T I get an error window with "chmod >failure of status file". I had this before on another machine an >fidled it away. I now have 8 machines, one with the problem, and >cannot seem to get it fixed. > >The question is why and perhaps more importantly, how do I fix this. >I cannot find an explanation in the documentation of 3.51 electronic >mail or in what I have on HDB. I assume you mean Electronic Mail 2.01, the latest version (according to AT&T). What I always do is: # chmod 2711 `path email` # chgrp mail `path email` # chgrp mail /usr/lib/uucp/L.sys # chmod g+r /usr/lib/uucp/L.sys You may first need to create the group mail in the /etc/group file with something like: mail:NONE:6:root,uucp,nuucp,uucpadm,bob One other, quite unrelated problem is that the L.sys file isn't 100% compatible with Systems. Email 2.01 is the only program that of which I'm aware that exhibits the following problem. If you've got complicated calling hours in your Systems file, then Email 2.01 may not correctly parse it, and you'll end up with your machine attempting to send mail out as 'rmail ' instead of 'rmail crash!bblue', for example. The way I ended the symptoms was by de-linking L.sys and Systems, entering dummy entries into L.sys - one per machine listed in Systems, but this time with no complicated calling hours - and now Email 2.01 works pretty well under HDB. Bob Bob Ames The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, NORML "Pot is the world's best source of complete protein, alcohol fuel, and paper, is the best fire de-erosion seed, and is america's largest cash crop." - USDA bob@rush.cts.com or ncr-sd!rush!bob@nosc.mil or rutgers!ucsd!ncr-sd!rush!bob 619-743-2546 "We each pay a fabulous price for our visions of paradise," Rush