Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:21:19 -0700 (PDT) From: <keith@mail.telestream.com> To: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail ownership Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006261319550.13614-100000@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006261436470.1729-100000@earth.wnm.net>
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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
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Keith W.
At the helm <for better or worse>
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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
>
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