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Old 05-09-2014
Sendmail dir permission problems.

I accidently deleted the queue directory and now i'm receiving this error when I try to send email with sendmail.
Code:
:~# mailq
MSP Queue status...
                /var/spool/mqueue-client (1 request)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
s495xA7J002673        3 Fri May  9 09:59 root
                 (Deferred: 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfs495xAk8002674)
                                         desj1@videotron.ca
                Total requests: 1

Any help?

Last edited by Franklin52; 05-09-2014 at 04:49 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
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Old 05-20-2014
On HP-UX I see:
Code:
$ ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue
drwxrwxrwt   2 smmail     mail         17408 May 20 16:43 /var/spool/mqueue
$

 
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