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Subject: Re: sendmail and 2.2.1R not happy
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 08:30:40 -0800
From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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In article <199703302103.OAA01705@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>,
Steve Passe  <smp@csn.net> wrote:
> Mar 29 19:19:39 Sam sendmail[540]: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied
> Mar 29 19:19:39 Sam sendmail[540]: LAA04887: SYSERR(UID1): Cannot exec 
> /usr/libexec/mail.local: Permission denied
> 
> # lt `which sendmail`
> -r-sr-xr-x  5 root  bin  274432 Mar 25 07:50 /usr/sbin/sendmail*
> 
> # lt /etc/pwd.db
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  40960 Mar 30 03:31 /etc/pwd.db
> 
> # lt /usr/libexec/mail.local
> -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin  12288 Mar 25 07:42 /usr/libexec/mail.local*
> 
> Anyone have any ideas???

I don't know what's going on with your sendmail, but I bet ktrace could
tell you. :-)

John
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
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