[Mimedefang] Sendmail Help

[Ray Spinhirne]

Thanks

I think I have it working now.

Ray


> > 
> > Ray Spinhirne wrote:
> > > We are in the process of updated an HPUX server and MIMEDefang.
> > > 
> > > I'm pretty sure this is a sendmail problem and not a MIMEDefang
> > > problem but perhaps someone could give me a pointer.  (It's late
> > > and I'm not thinking were well.)  
> > > 
> > > At any rate here is what's happenning.
> [stuff cut]
> > > 
> > 
> > what user is sendmail running as?
> > 
> > Make sure that user has perms on the dir and group perms on the file typically.
> > 
> > i.e. my /var/spool/mail directory is owned by bin:mail and is 1777 (I think 
> > it's one... I have rwx+t for group)
> > 
> > and everything in mail is $user:mail 660
> > 
> > if sendmail is not running with group "mail" perms, it won't be able to write 
> > to any files.
> > 
> >   -Ben
> 
> I found the section in sendmail.cf that defines the user and group.
> It was commented out so I don't know was used before.
> 
> Change it to :
> 
> # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid)
> O DefaultUser=root:mail
> 
> (Is this value ok, or should it not be run as root.)
> 
> Seems to have fixed the problem.   
> (We have backed out of putting this into production today.)
> 
> This still doesn't explain why it worked ok on the other
> system while commented out.
> 
> 
> Ray
> 
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