From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 20:15:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from challenger.harlanonline.org (c11b012.neo.rr.com [204.210.203.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E24737B400 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:15:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from r3mdh@localhost) by challenger.harlanonline.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g284FmC12873 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:15:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from r3mdh) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:15:47 -0500 From: "Michael D. Harlan" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with virtual hosting Message-ID: <20020308041547.GA12825@harlanonline.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Another FYI for everyone. mail.local is no longer run w/ setuid, so that's why the mail stayed in the local queue, rather than being delivered to the local recipients. ----- Forwarded message from Neil W Rickert ----- To: "Michael D. Harlan" cc: sendmail-questions@sendmail.org Reply-To: sendmail-questions@sendmail.org Subject: Re: Problem with virtual hosting In-Reply-To: Message from "Michael D. Harlan" of "Thu, 07 Mar 2002 21:53:49 EST." <20020308025349.GA12001@harlanonline.org> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 21:46:37 -0600 From: Neil W Rickert X-SpamBouncer: 1.4 (10/07/01) X-SBNote: From Admin X-SBNote: FROM_DAEMON/Listserv X-SBClass: Admin "Michael D. Harlan" wrote: >It worked! You are my personal HERO. Thanks so much for helping a total >stranger. It means a lot to me. :-) >Mike >p.s. This incident has inspired me to get the O'Reiley (bat) sendmail book. I >really want to understand this, especially why the line of code that you provided >me makes it work. Thanks again! It add the "S" flag to the local mailer. The effect is that mail.local is invoked as root. BSD used to make mail.local setuid root. But they stopped doing that, so now it has to inherit root privileges from sendmail. -NWR ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Mike Harlan mike@harlanonline.org http://www.harlanonline.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message