Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 08:50:50 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Dan Lazin <dan.lazin@su.ualberta.ca> Cc: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail is sad: setreuid error with mail.local Message-ID: <20010228085050.B40408@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <B6C0176D.15F2%dan.lazin@su.ualberta.ca>; from dan.lazin@su.ualberta.ca on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:23:42PM -0700 References: <3A9A8C2C.AD914458@journalstar.com> <B6C0176D.15F2%dan.lazin@su.ualberta.ca>
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:23:42PM -0700, Dan Lazin wrote:
> I replaced my remade sendmail.cf file with the default file, and sendmail is
> working again--unfortunately, though, this prohibits me from setting
> undefined users' mail from forwarding to root, as I had it set before.
>
> Sendmail itself was still running before (I could send, and mail was getting
> to people who were specified in aliases); it seems to just have been a
> problem with mail.local not having the ability to swap uids to write to
> mailboxes. Anyone know why?
The latest version of sendmail on FreeBSD has taken out the suid-bit
on mail.local. You've got to change the local-mailer flags. If you use
m4 macro files to build your sendmail.cf, this is what you've got to
add:
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS', LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS`'P)dnl
Hope this helps
--
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