From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 20:45:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5F937B40F for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 20:45:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.core.com (shell.core.com [169.207.1.89]) by out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.12.3/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id g4N3ldbJ032137; Wed, 22 May 2002 22:47:39 -0500 Received: from localhost (raiden@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id g4N3jiK20343; Wed, 22 May 2002 22:45:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 22:45:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Steven Lake X-X-Sender: raiden@shell.core.com To: GB Clark Cc: Steven Lake , Subject: Re: Evil sendmail issue In-Reply-To: <20020522163028.458de5e0.gclarkii@vsservices.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So short answer would be to kill sendmail, run a make on the latest sendmail, then restart and see what happens? Eh, that's a possibility. One other note of interest that I've seen with the sendmail program. When it's first restarted all users can send from their mail programs fine. Give it 5-15 minutes and we're back to square one again. On Wed, 22 May 2002, GB Clark wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002 15:59:56 -0500 (CDT) > Steven Lake wrote: > > > Ok, I spoke too soon earlier. I've solved all but two issues. > > One apparently isn't causing any problems, so I'm gonna attack the other > > one. Users of pine, with the given exception of root, can't send mail > > from pine, but they can send mail from anywhere else, they can telnet to > > localhost, they can send mail from an outside source but none of the mail > > programs, elm, pine, mail, etc. can send mail. I keep getting the > > following error: collect: Cannot write ./dfg4ML3Emi000332 (bfcommit, > > uid=1001, gid=25): Permission denied > > queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg4ML3Emi000332, uid=1001: > > Permission denied > > > > I also get a similar error to that when using Pine. Any ideas? > > Are permissions broke somewhere that I don't know about? It's not > > affecting productivity, but it is slightly annoying cause if I shell in, > > or another user remotely shells in they can't send mail. > > > Hello, > > I just got done dealing with this with one of my customers. Make sure that you read src/UPDATING. > > You HAVE TO HAVE the new config files for sendmail because of the changes to > make sendmail non-suid. The above error messages are identical to what I was getting. > > GB > > -- > GB Clark II | Roaming FreeBSD Admin > gclarkii@VSServices.COM | General Geek > CTHULU for President - Why choose the lesser of two evils? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message