<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue)</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Bugzilla Guide - 3.6.4 Release" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Troubleshooting" HREF="troubleshooting.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="DBD::Sponge::db prepare failed" HREF="trbl-dbdsponge.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Everybody is constantly being forced to relogin" HREF="trbl-relogin-everyone.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="section" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Bugzilla Guide - 3.6.4 Release</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="trbl-dbdsponge.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix A. Troubleshooting</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="trbl-relogin-everyone.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="paranoid-security" >A.5. cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue)</A ></H1 ><P >If you are installing Bugzilla on SuSE Linux, or some other distributions with <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"paranoid"</SPAN > security options, it is possible that the checksetup.pl script may fail with the error: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P >This is because your <TT CLASS="filename" >/var/spool/mqueue</TT > directory has a mode of <SAMP CLASS="computeroutput" >drwx------</SAMP >. Type <B CLASS="command" >chmod 755 <TT CLASS="filename" >/var/spool/mqueue</TT ></B > as root to fix this problem. This will allow any process running on your machine the ability to <EM >read</EM > the <TT CLASS="filename" >/var/spool/mqueue</TT > directory. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="trbl-dbdsponge.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="trbl-relogin-everyone.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >DBD::Sponge::db prepare failed</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="troubleshooting.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Everybody is constantly being forced to relogin</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >