On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Tony Crawford wrote: > Hi people! > > I ran this question end of last week and got no bites; here again > with slightly changed Subject line. > > > Anyone got a tip for me? I'd like to use Debian as a POP server in > > the LAN, but so far it doesn't want to play along. Here's the syslog: > > > > Apr 10 17:29:42 pumpkin tcplogd: pop-3 connection attempt from > > miregal [192.168.0.1] > > Apr 10 17:29:42 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: connect from miregal > > Apr 10 17:29:43 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: Unable to open temporary > > maildrop '/var/spool/pop/tony.pop': Permission denied (13) > > Apr 10 17:29:43 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -ERR System > > error, can't open temporary file, do you own it? > > > > What should the permissions for /var/spool/pop be, or is there > > something else I'm doing wrong?
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Jan 25 16:03 pop qpopper created this with the right permissions. /etc/inetd.conf should specify that qpopper is run by root, so you shouldn't be getting the error: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.qpopper Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
