[Mimedefang] What is this Mimedefang/Sendmail error?

Larry Starr larrys at fullcompass.com
Wed Mar 8 11:44:23 EST 2006


Just a thought.

Is mimedefang running as user "defang"?

If so, is that user a member of the "mail" group (12 in your case)?

Hope this helps.

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 09:51, Lisa Casey wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> > Check the permissions and mode bits of the directory...
> >
> > then compare that to what user your sendmail system is running as and if
> > that user has
> > rwx access to the dir.
>
> That's one of the first things I looked at, and  I don't see where the
> problem is. In sendmail.cf I have:
>
> # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid)
> O DefaultUser=8:12
>
> In my password file, this is the user mail:
>
> mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin
>
> I have this commented out in sendmail.cf:
>
> # what user id do we assume for the majority of the processing?
> #O RunAsUser=sendmail
>
> Permissions on /var/spool/clientmqueue are as follows:
>
> drwxrwx---    2 mail     mail         4096 Feb 28 13:13 clientmqueue
>
> The error message I am seeing looks to me like it's complaining about the
> defang user not having permission to access /var/spool/mqueue and I'm
> pretty certain that the defang user shouldn't be the owner of
> /var/spool/clientmqueue
>
> Mar  8 09:11:21 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang-multiplexor[737]: Slave 0 stderr:
> can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
> Mar  8 09:11:21 Raydeus-Dee sendmail[17956]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(defang): can
> not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
>
> I think maybe my thinking is screwey here?  What might I have overlooked?
>
> Lisa Casey
>
>
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