Re: flist:_Permission_denied

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Zhiliang Hu wrote:

> Previously I got the Smartlist to work on this RH linux box.
> 
> Today it quit working, nothing recorded in list log but this error in
> /var/log/maillog:
> 
> Aug 25 17:21:30 neo qmail: 1251238890.973347 delivery 128: deferral:
> /bin/sh:_/var/list/.bin/flist:_Permission_denied/
> 
> The only thing I did during this time was to add 'r' permission for the web
> server to one of the list dir, but wonder why mail to any other list address
> and -request addresses all got this "permission" problem.  I looked at
> file/folder permissions and don't see anything odd. e.g.:
> drwxr-sr-x 2 slist slist 4096 Aug 24 10:16 ~list/.bin
> -rwxr-xr-x 5 slist slist  25K Jan 18  2007 ~list/.bin/flist
> drwxr-sr-x 3 slist slist 4096 Aug 24 13:35 ~list/mylist
> etc.
> 
> Any hint what could be wrong?

In my system:

# ls -l /var/list/.bin/flist
-rwsr-xr-x 5 root list 25432 ene 18  2007 /var/list/.bin/flist

Those are also the permissions of the executable inside the .deb.
Either those permissions were lost during the conversion to .rpm,
or maybe you changed them after installing the package.