Mail broken on Solaris 8 E250 system with can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied

From: Richard Skelton (Richard.Skelton_at_infineon.com)
Date: 06/13/05

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    Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:43:39 +0100
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    Hi,
    I have a strange problem on an E250 Solaris 8 system.
    Mail is broken:-
    rskelton: mailx Richard.Skelton@Infineon.com
    Subject: Test
    Test
    .
    EOT
    rskelton: can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied

    If I try this as root:-
    root: mailx Richard.Skelton@Infineon.com
    Subject: test
    Test
    .
    EOT
    root: drop_privileges: setuid(0) succeeded (when it should not):
    Operation not permitted

    I have checked the package for mailx:-
    root: grep "/usr/bin/mailx" /var/sadm/install/contents
    /usr/bin/mailx f none 2511 root mail 126880 47389 1003406180 SUNWcsu
    root: pkgchk SUNWcsu
    ERROR: /usr/share/lib/termcap
        file size <136663> expected <137359> actual
        file cksum <35225> expected <23929> actual
    root: ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue
    drwxr-x--- 2 root bin 3072 Jun 13 08:30 /var/spool/mqueue/
    root: ls -l /usr/bin/mailx
    -r-x--s--x 1 root mail 126880 Oct 18 2001 /usr/bin/mailx*
    I also have lots of errors from sendmail in /var/adm/messages:-
    Jun 13 13:00:27 brscs04 sendmail[19848]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE:
    SYSERR(cadadm): can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied

    Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this problem without a re-boot? 

    -- 
Cheers
Richard Skelton
Richard.Skelton@infineon.com
Infineon Technologies UK Ltd
Infineon House
Great Western Court
Hunts Ground Road
Stoke Gifford
Bristol
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