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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:58:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ada Cheng <acheng@member.ams.org>
To:        Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with sendmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.1021017075815.29694A-100000@nova.kettering.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.1021017055356.24702C-100000@nova.kettering.edu>

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I realize what my problem was.  I didn't reboot the system after I
rebuild sendmail.  Thanks everyone!!

Cheers,
Ada
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Ada Cheng wrote:

> I have added the line recommended below but I am still getting a similiar
> error, except now I have
> Oct 17 05:43:38 infinity mail.local: setreuid(0, 0): Operation not
> permitted (r=1, e=1)
>  
> So I decided to look for the file mail.local and notice the following:
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  73967 Oct 16 12:28 /usr/local/libexec/mail.local
>  
> I also have mail.local at /usr/libexec/ /usr/local/bin/ but those two
> mail.local file has ownership root and group wheel.  Shouldn't all have
> them have ownership root and group wheel?
>  
> Many thanks once again.
> 
> Ada
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> 
> > Ada Cheng schrieb:,
> > 
> > > I am unable to receive any email send to my box.  I am running 4.6.2 with
> > > sendmail 8.12.6_1.
> > > 
> > > When I try to send a test mail to another source which I then redirect
> > > back to my box I obtain the following message in
> > 
> > > Oct 16 15:56:10 infinity mail.local: setreuid(0, 1000): Operation not permitted (r=1, e=1)
> > 
> > Please add in your sendmail.mc file:
> > 
> > MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `+S')dnl
> > 
> > mail.local is not SUID, so sendmail must start it as root.
> > 
> > kind regards Dirk
> > 
> > - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany
> > - [dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org],[dirk.meyer@guug.de],[dinoex@FreeBSD.org]
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