Guest johnww Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 I just installed Mandrake 10 on a new machine. During the set-up, I specified "Standard" security level. I cannot get postfix to run correctly. The error I get is "Resource temporarily unavailable" when it tries to forward mail to external SMTP servers. I believe the problem may be that postfix user (the user that owns and runs many of the postfix daemons and folders) lacks certain priveleges. I have found other simple commands that give the same "Resource temporarily unavailable" error: If I am not logged in as root and I try something simple like PING, I also get the "Resource temporarily unavailable" message. Only PING from the root user gets through. The priveleges for /bin/ping are rwsr-xr-x I think that many of the basic system files and functions are not allowing anyone but root to run them. What did I do wrong? How can I fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streeter Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Unless anybody has a better idea, and as this is a new installation, I would probably re-install and try again. If you stop the postfix processes, can you ping as a user then? Are you trying to send loads of mail? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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