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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:37:02 +0100
From:      Andreas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Wider=F8e?= Andersen <awand@pragma.no>
To:        Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help! Errors in /var/log/messages after upgrade
Message-ID:  <3E2D4CFE.7010403@pragma.no>
References:  <3E2D40B1.1020306@pragma.no> <200301211310.H0LDAQL50541@asarian-host.net>

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Mark wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Wider=F8e Andersen" <awand@pragma.no>
> To: <Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:44 PM
> Subject: Help! Errors in /var/log/messages after upgrade
>=20
>=20
>=20
>>After I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE yesterday I receive some errors
>>in the /var/log/messages file. These errors occour only when people
>>try to send mail via webforms on websites hosted on the server. Here
>>is an example:
>>
>>Jan 21 13:40:12 server sendmail[44046]: h0LCeCp6044046: SYSERR(www):
>>collect: Cannot write ./dfh0LCeCp6044046 (bfcommit, uid=3D80, gid=3D25)=
:
>>Permission denied Jan 21 13:40:12 server sendmail[44046]:
>>h0LCeCp6044046: SYSERR(www): queueup: cannot create queue temp file
>>./tfh0LCeCp6044046, uid=3D80: Permission denied
>>
>>Can someone please tell me what to do to get rid of this and make web
>>forms work again? Thanks a million!!
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>=20
>=20
> Hi Andreas,
>=20
> I had the same problem myself, when I installed FreeBSD 4.7R on a new
> server.
>=20
> I was finally able to "solve" it by queueing mail from the webdaemon (f=
rom
> CGI scripts and such) into its own queue (that is, running messages off=

> forms with "-odq -oQ/var/spool/webqueue" (and setting such as default i=
n
> php.ini), and setting access rights for "/var/spool/webqueue" owned by =
the
> "nobody" user (Apache runs as nobody) as follows:
>=20
> drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody  daemon    512 Jan 21 13:41 webqueue
>=20
> (would likely be user "www" in your case) I say "solve" because this do=
es
> indeed make the permission errors go away, and things worked again; tho=
ugh I
> feel a more elegant solution may exist, I have not found it yet.


Is Apache trying to put a temporary file into /var/spool/mqueue without=20
having the correct permissions to do so?

I've noticed a new directory under /var/spool which is named=20
/clientmqueue. What is this for?

Also, which Sendmail version was included in FreeBSD 4.5 and which is=20
included in 4.7?

/Andreas

--=20
Andreas Wider=F8e Andersen <awand@pragma.no>
Pragma AS

http://www.pragma.no


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