Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:46:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? Message-ID: <199604221646.MAA10587@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604221641.JAA16380@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Apr 22, 96 09:41:50 am
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> check the permissions on your sendmail. sendmail needs to run as root
> for several reasons. it needs to read people's .forward file
> regardless of the permissions. it needs to append to people's
> mailboxes. it needs to bind port 25. any others?
>
> -r-sr-sr-x 3 root kmem 245760 Mar 10 18:25 /usr/sbin/sendmail
Those are the permissions on my sendmail. It just doesnt work! This is on a
2.1R system.
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-r-sr-sr-x 3 root kmem 180224 Nov 16 04:59 /usr/sbin/sendmail*
# ls -ld /root
2 drwx------ 8 root wheel 512 Apr 21 23:16 /root/
# more /root/.forward
henrich
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If I send mail to root@mymachine, it goes to /var/mail/root, instead of being
forwarded. root's homedir is /root... This makes no sense!
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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