From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 6:33: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pickup6-ld.pvd.loa.net (pickup.loa.com [199.171.167.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2EBE37B419 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 06:33:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 32433 invoked by uid 0); 16 Apr 2002 13:32:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pretorian) (206.98.60.1) by pickup6-ld.pvd.loa.net with SMTP; 16 Apr 2002 13:32:56 -0000 Message-ID: <006f01c1e54b$29518200$4469a8c0@cybertours.com> From: "Kennebunk Mailing List" To: Subject: sendmail help Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:32:31 -0400 Organization: Log On America MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Im running FBSD 4.3..doing virtual web hosting / mail ..etc....I recently upgraded sendmail to the newest version. ..any who ...i did as the intructions ( INSTALL.txt ) to make a user/group called... smmsp thing is .....after i did the upgrade the sendmail process still runs as root... ( i know this is a BAD thing.... so i intend to fix this ASAP ) does anyone have howto on changing the user that sendmail runs "root" to "smmsp" instead ...i know this requires changing ownership of the directories used by sendmail ...like /var/mail/ etc.. thanx in advance for any and all help .. Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message