Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:50:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave McCammon <davemac11@yahoo.com> To: Kennebunk Mailing List <brentb@loa.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail help Message-ID: <20020416195045.29877.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <006f01c1e54b$29518200$4469a8c0@cybertours.com>
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--- Kennebunk Mailing List <brentb@loa.com> wrote: > Im running FBSD 4.3..doing virtual web hosting / > mail ..etc....I recently > upgraded sendmail to the newest version. ..any who > ...i did as the > intructions ( INSTALL.txt ) to make a > user/group called... > smmsp > > thing is .....after i did the upgrade the sendmail > process still runs as > root... ( i know this is a BAD thing.... so i > intend to fix this ASAP ) > does anyone have howto on changing the user that > sendmail runs "root" to > "smmsp" instead ...i know this requires changing > ownership of the > directories used by sendmail ...like /var/mail/ > etc.. > thanx in advance for any and all help .. > > Brent > > This may help a little. There have been some changes to how sendmail is ran and started in FBSD in the last few weeks (big thread in Stable mailing list).But here is a message about the mta running as root and the submission running as smmsp. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=433134+0+archive/2002/freebsd-stable/20020407.freebsd-stable > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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