[Mimedefang] strange sendmail error : SYSERR(defang): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied

Stephane Lentz Stephane.Lentz at ansf.alcatel.fr
Wed Nov 20 06:28:01 EST 2002


HI, 

on some test machine running MIMEDefang 2.23 that I'm preparing to 
upgrade to 2.26  I'm seing some strange sendmail errors related to
 the defang account:

Nov 20 11:58:31 mailgate sendmail[15033]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(defang): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Nov 20 12:10:42 mailgate sendmail[16804]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(defang): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Nov 20 12:11:23 mailgate sendmail[16926]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(defang): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Nov 20 12:12:32 mailgate sendmail[17079]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(defang): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Nov 20 12:14:03 mailgate sendmail[17338]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(defang): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied

Am I the only one ? 

# id defang
uid=415(defang) gid=416(defang) groups=416(defang)

# id smmsp
uid=96(smmsp) gid=415(smmsp) groups=415(smmsp)

rwxrwx---    2 smmsp    smmsp          48 Nov 20 12:21 /var/spool/clientmqueue/
-rwx--s--x    1 root     mail       548728 Jul 15 11:36 /usr/sbin/sendmail*

MX_USER=defang in /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang
My mimedefang-filter is not very different from the default one (custom logging, discard of dangerous messages, ...)

However messages get sent/blocked normaly.

Regards, 

SL/
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Stephane Lentz / Alcanet International - Internet Services



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