From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 11:20:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA08199 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:20:56 -0700 Received: from elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (elf.kendall.mdcc.edu [147.70.150.122]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA08189 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:20:51 -0700 Received: (from freelist@localhost) by elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA26298; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 14:08:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 14:08:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Don's FList drop" To: Michael S Burg cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail error reported... In-Reply-To: <199508220209.UAA00621@sass165.sandia.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Michael S Burg wrote: > I used "Mail -v tranp", the sendmail program reported errors > > sendmail... dangerous permission. > ... > ... > cannot alias local user.. Could that be WARNING: dangerous write permission ?? (Check your syslog - this error is written out to there) I don't think you have a sendmail.cf problem here, though there are probably several people with more experience with sendmail.cf than me. (I just know how to bang on it till it translates the way I want it to...) If you do a ps -auwx | grep mail is sendmail running? The only place I can find that error in the source is under a check to determine (I think) the mode the program is running in. Perhaps sendmail is not running as root, or mail _is_. Check the suid flags. > I think the problem is at the "sendmail.cf", but I don't have > knowledge of the syntax under "sendmail.cf". if you want to mail it to don@elf.kendall.mdcc.edu I'll take a look at it and see if anything bites me. make sure you include the precise error messages.