Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:21:42 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ctm prob (help) Message-ID: <199601180921.KAA29335@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199601171740.SAA03892@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> >
> > I established a ctm user, and after the mail flow started running
> > I'm getting bounces:
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > Message delivered to mailing list <ctm@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
> > ctm_rmail: cannot log to 'ctm_log'
> > ctm_rmail: cannot open '/a/ctm/pieces/p.011878' for writing
> > 554 "|/usr/sbin/ctm_rmail -p /a/ctm/pieces -d /a/ctm/deltas -l ctm_log"... unkn
> > own mailer error 1
> >
> > /a/ctm is the home dir of ctm which is drwxrwxr-x ctm wheel.
>
> Mail filters are being run by user daemon. My ~ctm (where the files
> go to) is mode 1777. This might not be the very best idea for a true
> multi-user site (since somebody could cause denial-of-resource attacks
> by filling up the directory with not yet existant files of future
> batches).
Then the man page of ctm_rmail is misleading (if not wrong) when saying:
lines in your /etc/aliases file (assuming the /ctm/tmp and /ctm/deltas
directories and /ctm/log file are writable by user daemon or group
wheel):
I had made them writable by group wheel and it failed.
>
> --
> cheers, J"org
>
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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