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Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:38:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: john <john@www.cas.unt.edu>
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Subject: Re: Permissions changing on sendmail solved.
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On Sun, 24 May 1998, john wrote:

> > On Thu, 21 May 1998, john wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, it looks like if you put the beloew line in /etc/crontab
> > > #*/30   *   *   *        *      root  /usr/sbin/sendmail -q
> > > Your permisions on sendmail get wacked.....I find this
> > > behavior kind of odd....
> > 
> > Yes.  But this is redundant if you have sendmail enabled in /etc/rc.conf
> > with the default flags.
> > 
> 
> Yes it is, but I've got tcpwrappers running sendmail from /etc/inetd.conf
> 
> smtp    stream  tcp     nowait/5  root  /usr/local/libexec/tcpd /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs

That's the wierdest way I've seen sendmail run, but I guess it's okay.

> I think I can just do sendmail -bm -q30m and be ok as well as the inetd
> spawned sendmail.

I'd be careful with that.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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