Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:02:36 -0600 From: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com> To: Dan Lazin <dan.lazin@su.ualberta.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail is sad: setreuid error with mail.local Message-ID: <3A9A8C2C.AD914458@journalstar.com> References: <B6BDE218.15B3%dan.lazin@su.ualberta.ca>
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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
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