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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:56:02 -0400
From:      dochawk@psu.edu
To:        Jeff Jirsa <jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't send mail: "collect: Cannot write ./dd j000181 (bfcommit) 
Message-ID:  <200207311956.g6VJu24j001239@hedwig.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:25:42 PDT." <20020731121938.W20940-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> 

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Jeff jumped,

> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

> > slytherinttyp1:hawk>collect: Cannot write ./dfg6VE77n7000152 (bfcommit, uid=1000, gid=25): Permission denied
> > queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg6VE77n7000152, uid=1000: Permission denied

> What version of sendmail?

whatever was in -STABLE this week :)  It doesn't seem to respond to my 
usual ways of looking for a version.  However,

sendmail -v provoks

Warning: .cf file is out of date: sendmail 8.12.5 supports version 10, .cf file is version 9
Recipient names must be specified

so I'm guessing 8.12.5 :)

> What are the permissions on /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue ?

> If you're running sendmail 8.12.x, It should look something like:

> # ll /var/spool/ | grep *mqueue
> drwxrwx---  2 smmsp   smmsp   512 Jul 31 11:43 clientmqueue/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root    daemon  512 Jul 31 12:19 mqueue/

slytherin# ls -l /var/spool | grep mque
drwxrwx---  2 smmsp  smmsp   512 Jul 25 18:26 clientmqueue
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   daemon  512 Jul 31 13:02 mqueue

These seem to match.

I also just discovered that root is capable of sending mail . . .

> and whichever sendmail binary you're using (probably
> /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail) needs to be setgid smmsp:

> # ll /usr/libexec/sendmail
> total 1008
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      15 Jul  5 23:31 sendmail@ -> sendmail-8.12.3
> -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  smmsp  599501 Jul  5 23:29 sendmail-8.12.3*

slytherin# ls -l /usr/libexec/sendmail/
total 592
-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  smmsp  586944 Jul 31 14:02 sendmail



These match, as near as i can tell.

Did I need to add myself to a group, perhaps?

thanks

hawk

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