Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:11:57 -0800 From: Mark Stout <mcs@vpm.com> To: Majordomo-Users@GreatCircle.COM Cc: Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Majordomo stopped working Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980311091157.0150eb30@vpm.com>
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Hi All: I found the problem noted in this original email. It was the Scheck_compat rules I put in the /etc/sendmail.cf file to block the spammer that was using my mail server as a relay to spam 1000's. The result was my server loads went to over 270/250/190/ on the 1/5/15 minute averages. As a result, the server was basically useless. So now I ask, does anyone have any sendmail rules that will block the sdpammer but allow the aliases to be expanded? I have the Scheck_* rules in the ruleset 98. Maybe that's not a good place for it. Below is my S98 ruleset. I can send the .cf file if someone could take a look at it and see where I may be making an error. Again, any help is definately appreciated as this spammer has been using my server for 4 days now and I can't afford to have the system brought down like this. Thanks, Mark -------------[ Original Email for Reference ]------------------ At 09:15 PM 3/10/98 -0500, you wro te: >On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 05:15:04PM -0800, VPM Enterprises Support wrote: >> Hi >> >> I upgraded to Perl v5.004 over the weekend. Now that I did, none of my >> lists work and sendmail is now returning the error messages below to some, >> but not all email accounts. Anyone know what I can do to correct this? >> >> The OS is FreeBSD v2.2.1 on an Intel Pentium box with Majordomo v1.94.4 and >> sendmail is v8.8.6. >> >> Mar 10 16:53:14 www sendmail[14628]: QAA14628: Losing qfQAA14628: >> savemail panic >> Mar 10 16:53:14 www sendmail[14628]: QAA14628: SYSERR(root): >> savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere: Permission denied >> >> I've tried different settings on sendmail to 4755 and 4555 but that didn't >> work. >> >> -rwxr-xr-x 5 root bin 310964 Mar 9 16:16 /usr/sbin/sendmail >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 228352 Mar 10 16:59 /var/spool/mqueue > >I'm pretty sure that sendmail needs to be setuid root on all >platforms: > >-r-sr-x--x 1 root bin 521092 Feb 11 00:24 /usr/lib/sendmail* Oay, I reset that back to setuid root. >Do you get any errors when sendmail starts? What if you run >/usr/lib/sendmail -d21.2 -bt No error when sendmail starts. Also, going into test mode does what you'd expect. >Also try running ./wrapper config-test in your majordomo >directory. One of the first things I tried. This came back all OK. I have other customers who are now not able to get their mail as well. I'm stumped at this point! All help is appreciated. Mark ========================================================================== Mark Stout http://www.vpm.com/ VPM Enterprises President mcs@vpm.com (800) 321-0221 Providing Secured Web Hosting and Credit Card Processing ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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