From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 23 19:51:45 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 3111937B404 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 19:51:41 -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 g4O2rTbJ012236; Thu, 23 May 2002 21:53:29 -0500 Received: from localhost (raiden@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id g4O2pag21417; Thu, 23 May 2002 21:51:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 21:51:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Steven Lake X-X-Sender: raiden@shell.core.com To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Steven Lake , Daniel Bye , Subject: Still having mail errors (Was: re: thanks) In-Reply-To: <20020523180705.B5281@grimoire.chen.org.nz> 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 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 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