From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 02:05:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16326 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:05:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.davidv.net (davidv.net [206.138.229.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16312 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:04:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@davidv.net) Received: from workbox.davidv.net (david@workbox.davidv.net [10.124.239.13]) by ns1.davidv.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA02843 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 04:04:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david@davidv.net) Message-Id: <199810170904.EAA02843@ns1.davidv.net> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 04:02:32 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: david@davidv.net Organization: My Little unix network at Home From: "David L. Vondrasek" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Root can't even chmod ? Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA16321 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG help please. This is just a sample of the errors I'm getting. >From the weekly output file: Rebuilding locate database: /etc/weekly: chmod: permission denied /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb: cannot create /var/db/locate.database: permission denied /etc/weekly: chmod: permission denied Rebuilding whatis database: Cleaning up kernel database files: >From the SENDMAIL maillogs Oct 17 00:40:22 ns1 sendmail[7936]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(david): queuename: Cannot create "qfAAA07936" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (eui d=1000): Permission denied I have no idea what caused it. Put I can't even send mail from PINE local on that box due to the above error.. Ideas ? --- Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message