From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 29 15:23:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8072237B417; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:23:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from wocker (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0TNNQE01519; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:23:28 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from dan@lists.unixathome.org) Message-Id: <200201292323.g0TNNQE01519@lists.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:23:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: unknown mailer error 126 : sendmail issue? Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <15447.11282.817897.248752@horsey.gshapiro.net> References: <200201292251.g0TMpHE01182@lists.unixathome.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29 Jan 2002 at 15:11, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > dan> /usr/local/majordomo/wrapper: permission denied > > dan> -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom daemon 7326 Dec 15 15:54 wrapper > > From the FreeBSD release notes: Gregory: you are a sendmail gawd. And I'm a pillock for not reading the release notes. My apologies. > The smmsp and mailnull users have been added to /etc/master.passwd. > In the absence of a confDEF_USER_ID setting, by default, sendmail > will use the mailnull user for extra security. Previously, if the > mailnull user did not exist, the daemon user was used. This change > may generate some permissions issues when mailing to files or to > programs (such as mail/majordomo). The previous behavior can be > restored by adding the following line to a system's *.mc > configuration file: > define(`confDEF_USER_ID', `daemon') I haven't used a .mc file in quite some time. I'll try the freebsd.mc one and go from there. Hopefully I won't wind up breaking my mail server as well. If I were to not go the .mc route, what does the above statement translate to in a .cf file? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message