From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 13:21:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6ADF37BD30 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13736; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:21:19 -0700 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:21:19 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Alex Charalabidis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail ownership In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, sendmail is not running as nobody. I did however fix the problem by chmod +s on sendmail. Not sure yet of the implications of doing that so I'd like to hear some comments. Security risk ??? Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm ================================= On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Alex Charalabidis wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > > > I'm getting failures from sendmail that look like this when trying to send > > mail via a perl script on a mail server. It looks like it's possibly a > > permisions issue. Anyone with some insight as to why sendmail would do > > this? > > > > Jun 26 11:26:02 bsd sendmail[54205]: e5QIQ2x54205: SYSERR(nobody): > > collect: Cannot write ./dfe5QIQ2x54205 (bfcommit, uid=65534): Permission denied > > > > > > FreeBSD 4.0-Stable > > sendmail 8.10 > > I'd say you have sendmail running as a user ('nobody' apparently) that > has no write access to /var/spool/mail. Change its ownership to the > appropriate user. > > hth > > -ac > > -- > ============================================================== > Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 > Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 > WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 > Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ > ============================================================== > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message