Thanx to:
"Daniel T Pigg" <piggd@colltech.com>
djohnson@nbserv1.dseg.ti.com (Danny Johnson)
Ka Kau Chan <kkc@ans.net>
mdb@dosmanos.bolix.com (Martin D. Baldenegro (RRNC))
Jonathan.Loh@BankAmerica.com
Seela Balkissoon <seela@cs.yorku.ca>
"Rodney C. Marable" <marable@netgen.com>
SUMMARY:
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All of the above told me to check my permissions, so I did.
/var/mail was the problem, it had 755 owner=root, group=sys.
/var/mail directory should be
# chmod 1775 /var/mail or chmod 1755 /var/mail
# chown root:mail /var/mail
This seems to work, and sendmail doesn't complain.
ORIGINAL:
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I get the following error when sending emails locally to myself
or any other user on this system.
mail: /var/mail/johnb
mail: Can't open '/var/tmp/mailQvh12_' type: r+
mail: Cannot create dead.letter
550 johnb... Can't create output
Sendmail: 8.9.1
OS: Solaris 2.6
Note: /var/mail and /var/tmp are local file systems.
thanx,
jb
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