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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:01:00 +0200
From:      d e a t h <charon@hades.hell.gr>
To:        Peter Kok <cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: message from start up
Message-ID:  <19991130130100.D3470@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <3842B6D4.685E7A27@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>
References:  <3842B6D4.685E7A27@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>

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On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 01:24:36AM +0800, Peter Kok wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> I don't understand the meaning of following message when starting up
> freebsd
> Please explain to me.
> 
> message:
> httpd mysqlstarting mysqld demon with databases from /var/db/mysql
> smtpfwdd
> itsfreebsd smtpfwdd[177]: can't open semaphore file in
> "/var/smtpd/myqueue "Permission denied) - bye!

Seems like an ordinary permissions problem.  What user is the smtpfwdd
running as?  Does that user have write permission in the directory
/var/smtpd/myqueue and that `semaphore file' that it needs?

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]


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