Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:28:31 -0500 From: Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org> To: Mark Stout <mcs@vpm.com> Cc: Majordomo-Users@GreatCircle.COM, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Majordomo stopped working Message-ID: <19980311122831.47228@smoe.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980311091157.0150eb30@vpm.com>; from "Mark Stout" on Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 09:11:57AM -0800 References: <3.0.1.32.19980311091157.0150eb30@vpm.com>
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On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 09:11:57AM -0800, Mark Stout wrote: > 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. I'd recommend that you get the sendmail ruleset hacks from http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ca/email/check.html I've been using them for quite a while and they don't have any side effects. -Jeff > > 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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