From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 13:44: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilsonandhorton.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB3D37B721 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:43:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by wilsonandhorton.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA00407; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:42:19 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:42:19 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Thomas Good Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nobody versus FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000810084219.A343@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> References: <20000809125157.B251@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:33:52AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:33:52AM -0400, Thomas Good wrote: > Hello! > > I have a (postgres) database accessed via apache and perl/CGI. > Nobody is my default user. The code that works on Linux (boo hiss) > is failing on FBSD in one minor area: mail delivery. > > The perl scripts generate email for diff purposes, however, whilst > running on an FBSD box, Nobody the postman runs into a problem. > He is unable to write to /var/spool/mqueue. The perl script should be talking to the smtp port and not attempting to write to /var/spool/mqueue directly. Any workaround in adding `nobody' to the various additional groups tends to compromise security. What sort of errors does /var/log/maillog list? -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone" - Al Capone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message