No insult is implied.

I categozie you as inexperienced, because you were unable to
recognize a file permission problem by yourself.

Fixing this particular problem will require someone with more
experience than you have.

If you do not want to take advice, then so be it.

        Wietse

Charlie Whisker:
> I am familiar with both unix and solaris systems.
> I can appreciate that you wrote a piece of software
> but where do you get off insulting people or is that
> just one of the benefits of having your own mailing
> list.
>
>
> --- Wietse Venema <wietseporcupine.org> wrote:
> > nslookup depends on *OTHER* files on the system in
> > order to work.
> > I bet that someone broke some file permissions.
> >
> > "truss nslookup" will show what files it wants to
> > open. However,
> > you appear to be unfamiliar with UNIX systems. The
> > truss output
> > will show a lot of file open attempts that fail even
> > on a normally
> > configured system.
> >
> > I suggest that you find someone who is more familiar
> > with Solaris.
> >
> > Wietse
> >
> > Charlie Whisker:
> > > Interestingly enough after a "su - postfix", if I
> > try
> > > to run nslookup as user postfix nslookup will hang
> > > with the following:
> > >
> > > $ nslookup
> > > *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1:
> > No
> > > response from server
> > > *** Default servers are not available
> > >
> > > So the unprivlidged user postfix can acess
> > > /usr/sbin/nslookup since the attempt to run this
> > > command didn't produce a "file not found" error.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > > Paul
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Wietse Venema <wietseporcupine.org> wrote:
> > > > Try your DNS tests as a REALLY unprivileged
> > user.
> > > >
> > > > The Postfix SMTP client runs as user postfix and
> > > > therefore does
> > > > not have the all-powerful privileges that you
> > may
> > > > have.
> > > >
> > > > Wietse
> > > >
> > > > Charlie Whisker:
> > > > > Hello, I have just installed
> > > > > Postfix(postfix-20010228-pl03) on solaris 7.
> > The
> > > > > environment is not chrooted. My DNS server
> > works
> > > > fine
> > > > > with dig, host etc. Yet I have mail stuck in
> > the
> > > > > deferred queue. Running mailq shows many of
> > these
> > > > > entries:
> > > > >
> > > > > (Name service error for sonymusic.com: Host
> > not
> > > > found,
> > > > > try again)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Now I can look up the MX records for the above
> > > > domain
> > > > > just fine from this machine. I can do a:
> > > > >
> > > > > I looked at the FAQ and it only makes mention
> > of
> > > > this
> > > > > problem in chroot environments that are
> > missing
> > > > files.
> > > > > This is not the case here though. Can someone
> > shed
> > > > > some light on this and possible causes.
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > Paul
> > > > >
> > > > >
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