Paul you are correct : -  echo hallo world | /usr/bin/Mail -s "Test"
your.email AT some DOT dom

Does give the same error - so it is not amanda that is wrong it is my
system.

Thanks anyway. I'll take this off list.

Thanks for all your help (list members)

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com]
Sent: 05 June 2003 09:02
To: Kevin Passey
Cc: Amanda (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create
transcript fi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied


Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Kevin Passey wrote:
> 
>> bash-2.05$ /usr/sbin/amcheck kdp -m
>> bash-2.05$ Can't create transcript file ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission 
>> denied
>> Can anybody tell me where my permissions are wrong or where amanda is 
>> trying
>> to create this file.
> 
> 
> That seems to be a message from sendmail (invoked by Mail, invoked
> by amcheck).
> 
> Try:
>     echo hallo world | /usr/bin/Mail -s "Test" your.email AT some DOT dom
> 
> and you probably get the same error.

Following up on myself.  (Seems to be a habit on this list :-)
Check the permissions of the /var/spool/mqueue directory.
It should be owned by root, I believe.


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