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Date:      Thu, 23 May 2002 21:51:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com>, Daniel Bye <DAN@SlightlyStrange.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Still having mail errors (Was: re: thanks)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0205232150001.21321-100000@shell.core.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020523180705.B5281@grimoire.chen.org.nz>

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	Ok, nm.  I figured it out.  But I'm still getting failed sends on
mail in pine unless I used 4555 for the mode.  The other two dirs you
mentioned are correct.  Any ideas?

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:06:49PM -0500, Steven Lake wrote:
> > 	Dude, you are a genious!  I ran that chmod command on the sendmail
> > program you suggested and the problem fixed itself.  I never would have
> > thought to look there.  :)  Thanks again, I owe you one.  You just saved
> > me spending my saturday wiping and putting this server back together.
> > hehe.
>
> Running sendmail as setuid root is a big security hole. If you're
> running -stable, the correct permissions are:
>
> -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  smmsp  581956 May 21 18:43 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail*
>
> and your spool directories should be:
>
> drwxrwx---  2 smmsp  smmsp   512 May 23 18:00 /var/spool/clientmqueue/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root   daemon  512 May 23 18:00 /var/spool/mqueue/
>
> Anything else will cause your sendmail to complain.
> --
> Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>                    Once is dumb luck.
>                                                  Twice is coincidence.
>              Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something.
>
>


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