Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 03:34:14PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: | On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, dman wrote: | > However, could you send me a detailed description of your sendmail | > system? Things like 'ls -l' on all sendmail files and spools, etc. | > That way I can compare it to this system and see

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:20:31PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: | On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, dman wrote: | > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:41:39PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | > | begin dman quotation: | > | > | > | > Is sendmail supposed to be suid or something? | > | | > | Bingo. | | Bzzt. wrong for

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Richard A Nelson quotation: > > > | Bingo. > > Bzzt. wrong for sendmail >= 8.12.0 ! Oops. Glad to hear that. That will cure a lot of ills. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it A

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin dman quotation: > > Ok, so should /usr/sbin/sendmail be suid root? (I'm not sure because > sendmail is much more complex than exim is and has many more pieces) Yes. > If so, why wasn't it that way already? Does the package come with it > suid and linuxconf screwed it up, or is the packa

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:41:39PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | begin dman quotation: | > | > Is sendmail supposed to be suid or something? | | Bingo. Ok, so should /usr/sbin/sendmail be suid root? (I'm not sure because sendmail is much more complex than exim is and has many more pieces) If

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin dman quotation: > > Is sendmail supposed to be suid or something? Bingo. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wro

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:26:13AM -0500, dman wrote: | As a regular user : | $ echo "hi" | /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | collect: Cannot write ./dfg3PGCNaY004221 (bfcommit, uid=1048, gid=101): Permission denied | When a regular user tries to send a message, the file given in

sendmail half-works

2002-04-25 Thread dman
We've got 2 debian servers at work now! One of them needs to serve email, and since the admin comes from RH we installed sendmail and linuxconf. However, sendmail isn't working correctly. Sendmail properly listens on port 25 and will deliver mail, but it can only receive local mail from root.