On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, John Ostrowick wrote:

> 1. why is it saying sorry to me and refusing su, despite the user
> attempting it being in the group wheel?

I think this came up about a weeek or two ago.  Put the user in the
/etc/group(s?) file.  Setting their gid in the passwd file doesn't seem to
be supported currently in su.

> 2. why is sendmail refusing to write mail into mailq despite operating as root?

Probably the same reason you weren't receiving mail yesterday.

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