Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:17:55 +0200 From: Anders Troback <freebsd@troback.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Procmail error Message-ID: <20080708081755.2469118b@itpc02.gelita.swe> In-Reply-To: <20080708050504.GA69147@pcbsd> References: <20080708050504.GA69147@pcbsd>
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:05:04 -0700 Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> wrote: > Probably the wrong forum for this, but since it's on a freebsd system: >=20 > I have mutt installed on two other freebsd computers. I fetch pop > mail via getmail, and procmail puts things where they belong. I just > installed freebsd 7.0 on another computer with what I thought were the > exact same settings for all of the mail programs involved. When I try > to retrieve mail I get this error message: >=20 > Delivery error (command procmail 3695 error (127, exec of command > procmail failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0 > by default))) >=20 > I'm a relative newbie here and would appreciate it if someone could > give me a heads up on this. >=20 > Rem Are you running getmail as root? --=20 Anders Trob=E4ck http://www.troback.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" --------------------------------------------
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