Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:31:45 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd sendmail error Message-ID: <20030410221641.N21424-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <H8aZPTZucal%2BEwL3@lap.knigma.org> References: <H8aZPTZucal%2BEwL3@lap.knigma.org>
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Mark Knight wrote:
> One my 4.8 box I recently made a silly mistake sending a mail from the
> command line, along the lines of:
>
> mkn@shrewd$ mail test@knigma.org -c test@knigma.org
> Subject: test
> test
> EOT
> mkn@shrewd$ WARNING: RunAsGid for MSP ignored, check group ids
> (egid=1001, want=25)
> can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
> Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
Well, according to the mail(3) manpage, anything after the to: address is
passed straight to sendmail. And it turns out that the presence of the
email address does not matter either.
> sendmail -c
WARNING: RunAsGid for MSP ignored, check group ids (egid=5000, want=25)
can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
But thats about as far as I can figure, because as far as I can tell the
sendmail -c option is undocumented... The source code says (main.c):
/* compatibility flags */
case 'c': /* connect to non-local mailers */
So basically you are inadvertantly using a deprecated option. I'm not
suprised it gives an unusual error message...
Gavin
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