From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 12:01:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E751C16A4BF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:01:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aslan.camp.com (portal.camp.com [206.124.12.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3444043F93 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@camp.com) Received: from aslan.camp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.camp.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7LItXgI012839; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:55:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from steve@localhost) by aslan.camp.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h7LItWg2012838; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:55:32 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:55:32 -0600 From: Steve Camp To: Danny Horne Message-ID: <20030821125532.B14367@aslan.camp.com> References: <20030821122622.A14367@aslan.camp.com> <1061491632.840543fe6395c@webmail.clifftop.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1061491632.840543fe6395c@webmail.clifftop.net>; from danny@clifftop.net on Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:47:12PM +0100 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP! Sendmail 8.12.9 problems up the wazzoo on FreeBSD 4.3.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:01:18 -0000 Hi Danny, Thanks for the reply. I believe I did. To your knowledge, should the following work: city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/passwd smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Queue:/nonexistent:/nonexistent city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/group smmsp:*:25: Or will the /nonexistent home directory and /nonexistent bogus shell entry cause problems? -- Steve Camp steve@camp.com On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:47:12PM +0100, Danny Horne wrote: > Steve Camp was once thought to have said: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am sending / posting this message to > > > > FreeBSD questions mailing list > > comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup > > sendmail mailing list > > possibly other comp.unix.bsd.* newsgroups > > > > I am quite stumped. Any and all help is welcomed. I will be working on this > > problem all day. Please feel free to contact me directly at 'steve@camp.com' > > if you'd like to help me figure this puzzle out. > > > Did you create the smmsp user / group as part of the upgrade? Required from > 8.12.0 - > > 8.12.0/8.12.0 2001/09/08 > *NOTICE*: The default installation of sendmail does not use > set-user-ID root anymore. You need to create a new user and > a new group before installing sendmail (both called smmsp by > default). The installation process tries to install > /etc/mail/submit.cf and creates /var/spool/clientmqueue by > default. Please see sendmail/SECURITY for details. > > -- > To do is to be -- Nietzsche > To be is to do -- Sartre > Scooby do be do -- Scooby > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.