Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 06:09:07 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Joey Teel <joeyteel@earthlink.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail directory ownership changed Message-ID: <20030201040907.GB18895@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <000001c2c994$ff9a99e0$0400a8c0@RUKI> References: <000001c2c994$ff9a99e0$0400a8c0@RUKI>
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On 2003-01-31 19:55, Joey Teel <joeyteel@earthlink.net> wrote:
> A few days ago I started getting errors in my syslog saying that
> sendmail couldn't write to the mail directories, on inspection of the
> permissions, I discovered that all the mail directories had been changed
> to be owned by my personal UID and GID
>
> Can someone tell me what the proper permissions should be on the mail
> directories used by sendmail for it's queue?
>
> I've tried searching for the info and haven't been able to find it
Read the instructions of /usr/src/UPDATING near the 20020217 entry:
: 20020217:
: sendmail 8.12.2 has been imported. The sendmail binary is no
: longer a set-user-ID root binary [...]
Follow the instructions of this UPDATING entry and you'll be fine.
- Giorgos
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