Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 22:12:43 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@cryptosphere.com> To: carvin5string <carvin5string@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail only sends mail for root, not non-root users Message-ID: <20040519211243.GC2340@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040519184413.25850.qmail@web40407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040519184413.25850.qmail@web40407.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:44:13AM -0700, carvin5string wrote:
> What do I have to do to make sendmail send mail for non-root users?
> Thanks
Looks like your permissions are fubar'd. I assume you're running the
standard sendmail daemon that comes with the system. If you're
running the ports version, then you'll have to adapt these instructions.
i) Make sure the permissions are correct on the spool directories
etc. that sendmail uses:
# mtree -p /var -e -U -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist=20
# mtree -p /var -e -U -f /etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist
ii) Make sure that the permissions on the sendmail binary are correct
and that mailer.conf is correct.
# /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
# make obj && make depend && make all install
after which you should end up with sendmail installed as
/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail with ownership/permissions:
% ls -la /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail=20
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 607444 May 19 17:29 /usr/libexec/sendmai=
l/sendmail
(or do a complete buildworld cycle if it's time you had an
upgrade anyway)
The contents of /etc/mail/mailer.conf should look like this:
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/mailer.conf,v 1.2.2.1 2002/04/09 02:00:56 =
gshapiro Exp $
#
# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/=
sendmail
#
sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
hoststat /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
purgestat /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
iii) Check your sendmail config. Judging by the log snippet you show,
you've got some sort of nasty mess, with non-working parts of
your system calling itself 'sendmail' (perhaps a remnant of a
much older version before the split into sendmail-mta and
sendmail-clientmqueue?)
If necessary move aside any `hostname`.mc files from
/etc/mail, and start again by:
# cd /etc/mail
# mv `hostname`.mc /var/tmp
# rm `hostname`.cf
# make (this recreates the default `hostname`.=
mc)
# vi `hostname`.mc
# make
# make install
# make restart
It's unlikely you'll need to do anything similar with the
clientmqueue configuration -- the standard freebsd.subit.mc is
exactly what's required for the vast majority of sites.
Cheers,
Matthew=09
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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