why can't sendmail write?

[Bill Moran]

Gary D Kline wrote:
> 	After having my DNS server fail late yesterday, and several
> 	times reboot, I find that something is wrong with some permission
> 	involving sendmail.
> 
> Apr 15 01:09:12 sage sendmail[881]: h3F89CTR000881: SYSERR(admin): collect:
> Cannot write ./dfh3F89CTR000881 (bfcommit, uid=1001, gid=25): Permission
> denied
> Apr 15 01:09:12 sage sendmail[881]: h3F89CTR000881: SYSERR(admin): queueup:
> cannot create queue temp file ./tfh3F89CTR000881, uid=1001: Permission
> denied
> Apr 15 09:12:25 sage su: kline to root on /dev/ttyp1
> Apr 15 09:26:36 sage sendmail[1960]: h3FGQaHJ001960: SYSERR(kline):
> collect: Cannot write ./dfh3FGQaHJ001960 (bfcommit, uid=1002, gid=25):
> Permission denied
> Apr 15 09:26:36 sage sendmail[1960]: h3FGQaHJ001960: SYSERR(kline):
> queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfh3FGQaHJ001960, uid=1002:
> Permission denied
> 
> 	is what I found is messages.  The uid=1001 is, as evident,
> 	"admin"; uid=1002, is "kline", and gid=25 is smmsp.
> 
> 	Can anybody clue me in on what I need to fix?

Yes.  The error messages clearly state that there is a permission problem.

Off the top of my head ... check the directories in /var/spool
clientmqueue appears to need rwxrwx--- perms with owner/group as
smmsp:smmsp

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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