Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 21:51:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com>, Daniel Bye <DAN@SlightlyStrange.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Still having mail errors (Was: re: thanks) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0205232150001.21321-100000@shell.core.com> In-Reply-To: <20020523180705.B5281@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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Ok, nm. I figured it out. But I'm still getting failed sends on mail in pine unless I used 4555 for the mode. The other two dirs you mentioned are correct. Any ideas? On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:06:49PM -0500, Steven Lake wrote: > > Dude, you are a genious! I ran that chmod command on the sendmail > > program you suggested and the problem fixed itself. I never would have > > thought to look there. :) Thanks again, I owe you one. You just saved > > me spending my saturday wiping and putting this server back together. > > hehe. > > Running sendmail as setuid root is a big security hole. If you're > running -stable, the correct permissions are: > > -r-xr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 581956 May 21 18:43 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail* > > and your spool directories should be: > > drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 512 May 23 18:00 /var/spool/clientmqueue/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 May 23 18:00 /var/spool/mqueue/ > > Anything else will cause your sendmail to complain. > -- > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Once is dumb luck. > Twice is coincidence. > Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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