From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 22 09:46:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16629 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:46:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA16609 Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA10587; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:46:09 -0400 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199604221646.MAA10587@crh.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:46:09 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199604221641.JAA16380@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Apr 22, 96 09:41:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. ---- -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 ---- 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