From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 9: 3:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4390F37B4EC for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:03:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcD-020.sub-d.lee.net [208.205.127.20]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07930; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:03:11 -0600 Message-ID: <3A9A8C2C.AD914458@journalstar.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:02:36 -0600 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Lazin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail is sad: setreuid error with mail.local References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having a similar problem, and what it looks like is that mail.local on the newer release isn't setuid 0 like my 3.5-RELEASE machine. Maybe this is for a reason, and if anyone can enlighten me I would appreciate it. Dan Lazin wrote: > > I've just moved my server from one box to another, and I upgraded from > 3.2-RELEASE to 4.2-RELEASE in the meantime, along with relevant packages. > But sendmail is breaking on me. > > First I screwed up my virtusertable.db file, and I was getting this error: > "SYSERR(root): Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/virtusertable.db: > Inappropriate file type or format'". So I rehashed that file and fixed that > problem. In the meantime, my queue had been filling up with messages that > sendmail wasn't delivering because it couldn't read virtusertable. Then I > started getting "sendmail[1391]: f1MFFjk01391: SYSERR(root): savemail: can > not save rejected email anywhere," followed by "sendmail[1413]: > f1MFjjk01413: Losing ./qff1MFjjk01413: savemail panic." > > But I wasn't out of diskspace, so I can't figure out why it was dropping > messages. Any thoughts? > > Anyway, I moved the queue files to a different directory, and it stopped > breaking in that way. The only error left, and the one I need to fix, is > this: "mail.local: setreuid(0, 1001): Operation not permitted (r=1, e=1)." > That's what sendmail returns to anyone who tries to send me mail. It was > showing up in the messages file for awhile, but not anymore. > > Please do help. > > Dan Lazin > Edmonton, Alberta, Canada > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message