Mail error under UUCP
Carl S. Gutekunst
csg at pyramid.pyramid.com
Sun Mar 13 06:31:29 AEST 1988
In article <725 at yabbie.rmit.oz> radjg at yabbie.rmit.oz (Jordan Green) writes:
>I am using a TI BusinessPro (286) running Xenix 2.2 equipped with a v22
>modem (1200baud).
>
>Whenever I am sent mail from another system it arrives here on gremlin (my
>machinename) and disappears into a black hole never to resurface.
>
>root merlin (3/9-9:57) jordan XQT DENIED (rmail jordan )
>root merlin (3/9-9:57) david XQT DENIED (rmail root )
Two possibilities:
- Make sure the command "rmail" is in your L.cmds file. (Hey, I know it's ob-
vious, but I had to mention it.)
- Make sure your USERFILE is set up correctly to allow the execution daemon,
uuxqt, to run. Somewhere in your USERFILE there must two lines to define the
file access defaults, one with a blank machine name, and one with a blank
login name, as in:
nuucp, /usr/spool/uucppublic
,merlin /usr/spool/uucppublic
The line with the blank machine name defines (amongst other things) the file
access permissions for uuxqt. If this line is missing, uuxqt will always
return XQT DENIED. Note that on XENIX 2.2 UUCP, a single line like:
, /usr/spool/uucppublic
will *not* do the job. You gotta have two lines, one to define each case.
Even if they are:
, /usr/spool/uucppublic
, /usr/spool/uucppublic
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