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distributions with <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">paranoid</span>”</span> security options, it is
possible that the checksetup.pl script may fail with the error:
</p><pre class="programlisting">cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
</pre><p>
</p><p>This is because your <code class="filename">/var/spool/mqueue</code>
directory has a mode of <code class="computeroutput">drwx------</code>.
Type <span class="command"><strong>chmod 755 <code class="filename">/var/spool/mqueue</code></strong></span>
as root to fix this problem. This will allow any process running on your
machine the ability to <span class="emphasis"><em>read</em></span> the
<code class="filename">/var/spool/mqueue</code> directory.
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