From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 5 09:14:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22942 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 09:14:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22908 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 09:13:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.054 #11) id 0zmIj7-0007xM-00; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:30:29 +0000 Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:30:29 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Maksymilian Wrzesinski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/msgs/bounds Message-ID: <19981205143029.A30503@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19981204172848.A8994@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.17i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maksymilian Wrzesinski wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > > $ cat /var/msgs/bounds > > 3 2 > > two numbers, that's all. Try "0 0" if you have nothing else in /var/msgs > > $ man msgs > > hmmm... thanks for Your kind explanation but i'm still a bit confused. > > there wasn't any file in /var/msgs directory so i tried 'echo "0 0" > > /var/msgs/bounds' (that's what I understand from Your words). but even > then my sendmail sais "unknown mailer error" after trying to send > some short mail to user msgs (I've inserted 'msgs: "| /usr/bin/msgs -s"' > line to /etc/aliases already). That's most likely a permissions problem. You'll notice /var/msgs/ is owned by "daemon", make sure the bounds file is also owned by daemon, since your MTA will need to write to that. (It's set up differently here since I use Exim for my MTA, so they're owned by user "exim".) Also, please remember to include the list in any replies, so there are more people who may be able to answer your question. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message