Subject: Can't create transcript file

From: John Evans <[email-masked]>
Date: 17 Feb 2001 21:01:28 MST

Greetings,
    I've searched through the mailing list archives and I've found this
question asked once before, but the answer to the problem was not in the
archive. If someone would be kind enough to answer this for me, I would
appreciate it.

    When attempting to send an email from a non-root user using pine, I get
the following error, "Mail not sent: .0.0 Can't create transcript file
./xff1I3u2j05481: Permissi". I'm assuming that it is telling me that I do not
have permission to write to that filename (which does change.)

    What needs to be done to resolve this situation? Here are some vital
stats:
Red Hat 7.0 (with many upgrades)
Pine 4.33
Sendmail 8.11.2 (Installed from PLD sendmail-8.11.2-3.src.rpm)
Linux kernel: 2.2.16

Thanks for any assistance that you can offer,
John Evans

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From: "Ed Greshko" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:42:43 +0800

John,

> Thanks for any assistance that you can offer,

I've a system running "stock" Red Hat 7.0 with pine 4.33 and I don't have this
problem.

The problem is apparently a non-root user calling "sendmail" and permissions on
a directory being set too strict.

A simple work-around would be to specify an "smtp-server" in the setup for pine.
This way pine will talk to sendmail on port 25 rather than calling the binary.

Ed

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:49:06 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

One possibility would be that your sendmail is not set uid root, which it
should be.

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Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle