From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 20: 9:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7960B37B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995E243F75 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a101.otenet.gr [212.205.215.101]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h11499Vq016894; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 06:09:09 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h114989g056238; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 06:09:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h11497hS056237; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 06:09:07 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 06:09:07 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Joey Teel Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail directory ownership changed Message-ID: <20030201040907.GB18895@gothmog.gr> References: <000001c2c994$ff9a99e0$0400a8c0@RUKI> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c2c994$ff9a99e0$0400a8c0@RUKI> 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 On 2003-01-31 19:55, Joey Teel wrote: > A few days ago I started getting errors in my syslog saying that > sendmail couldn't write to the mail directories, on inspection of the > permissions, I discovered that all the mail directories had been changed > to be owned by my personal UID and GID > > Can someone tell me what the proper permissions should be on the mail > directories used by sendmail for it's queue? > > I've tried searching for the info and haven't been able to find it Read the instructions of /usr/src/UPDATING near the 20020217 entry: : 20020217: : sendmail 8.12.2 has been imported. The sendmail binary is no : longer a set-user-ID root binary [...] Follow the instructions of this UPDATING entry and you'll be fine. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message