Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:25:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Rich Fox <rich@f2sys.net> To: Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon@excelsus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail.local problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105230924450.270-100000@Dell-Freebsd.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20010523091949.N64599-100000@joule.excelsus.com>
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Hi, Whoops I forgot to mention that I am using 4.1-release. I will check this information. Thanks, Rich. | rich fox / F2 | rich@f2sys.net | www.f2sys.net | 5927 Ridge View Drive | Alexandria, VA 22310-2074 | t:703.528.9616 | f:703.528.0599 On Wed, 23 May 2001, Weldon S Godfrey 3 wrote: > > I had a simular problem with mail.local when I used the generic BSD .mc > file given with the latest sendmail distribution file when I tried to > create my own sendmail.cf file. I don't remember it reporting a problem > writing in /tmp, I remember it was with writing to files in /var/mail > (permission errors) > > I discovered that with 4.3. there is a freebsd.mc file there and if you > use "make" it will build you a .cf file from that mc file. (which is very > nice) That fixed my problem. > > The feature I saw in freebsd.mc that I haven't seen before was > local_lmtp...I guess that had something to do with it. > > I dunno...I didn't pursue it further after the problem went away :) > > > > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Rich Fox wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am having a problem where mail.local can not create a temporary > > file, and I can't get mail delivered properly as a result. It is > > attempting to create a file in /tmp which looks like... > > > > drwxrwxrwt 5 root wheel 512 May 23 06:05 tmp > > > > I as myself and root can both create files in /tmp, without issue. I > > killed off many daemons thinking that perhaps I had too many file > > descriptors open (I really don't know what I am talking about here), but > > nothing helped. > > > > I could not find any specific information relating to this in the > > archive, or even anything I could graft onto this problem. > > Has anybody had experience with this? > > > > | rich fox / F2 > > | rich@f2sys.net > > | www.f2sys.net > > | 5927 Ridge View Drive > > | Alexandria, VA 22310-2074 > > | t:703.528.9616 > > | f:703.528.0599 > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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