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Date:      Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:54:09 -0500
From:      "Charles Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail permissions problem from apache mod_php4
Message-ID:  <002c01c281e0$72174420$0301a8c0@prime>
References:  <200211010708.gA178eVL049306@spooky.eis.net.au> <3DC2B25E.FBA98884@tcworks.net>

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Chris Cook wrote:
> Ernie Elu wrote:
>>  Just upgraded a server to 4.7-RELEASE and sending mail stopped
>>  working from php web pages with a mail log error like:
>>
>>   Nov  1 16:59:31 gammy sendmail[75716]: gA16xVHD075716:
>>   SYSERR(nobody): queueup: cannot create queue temp file
>>   ./tfgA16xVHD075716, uid=65534: Permission denied
>
> Yes, I ran into this as well, your sendmail has been replaced via
> cvsup and now it tries to drop mail in /var/spool/clientmqueue.  You
> can mess with permissions, adding the smmsp user, etc.. but the
> easiest way to fix the problem is to reinstall your latest version of
> sendmail that you are wanting to use.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with rolling your own installation or
running something for the ports collection (including using another MTA like
Postfix or whatever), either.  And you can continue running sendmail
setuid-root if you like, not that you're improving your network security by
doing so.

Running things not as root is good.

If you're looking to run something closely resembling the latest stable
sendmail, there isn't much point to not use the version which comes via
tracking FreeBSD via cvsup....

-Chuck

PS: Reading the release notes or running mergemaster would help catch these
issues.


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