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

[Guy FELTIN]

Dans son message, Stephane Lentz ecrivait :
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 > 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*



ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail

-r-xr-sr-x   1 root       smmsp      1617920 Oct  2 08:28 /usr/sbin/sendmail

See sendmail/SECURITY.



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