Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:04:11 -0700 From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@bug.gr> To: "Justin" <asmo@zeus.larp.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail Error Message-ID: <005001bfa7e7$ebc7ff60$10c536d4@charon>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Justin <asmo@zeus.larp.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Κυριακή, 16 Απριλίου 2000 10:40 πμ
Subject: Sendmail Error
>
>The error: Apr 16 06:26:09 heretic
>sendmail[728]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(asmo): cannot
>chdir(/usr/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
That's because sendmail is not running as root.wheel
all the time. Sending mail as 'root' will execute
the binary with root permissions, and it can write
files in /var/spool/mqueue. When you run a mailer
as a simple user, sendmail is executed by the mailer
as /that/ user, and not root.
The solution is to chmod sendmail's binary to be
set-uid root, and let simple users run sendmail as
root.wheel, as shown below:
# cd /usr/sbin
# chmod 4755 mailwrapper
(Don't worry about seeing mailwrapper here, instead
of sendmail. Your /usr/sbin/sendmail should be a link
to mailwrapper, as far as I know. :)
- Giorgos Keramidas
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