Odd sendmail error

[Jeff Jirsa]

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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Mark Knight wrote:

> One my 4.8 box I recently made a silly mistake sending a mail from the
> command line, along the lines of:
>
>    mkn at shrewd$ mail test at knigma.org -c test at knigma.org
>    Subject: test
>    test
>    EOT
>    mkn at shrewd$ WARNING: RunAsGid for MSP ignored, check group ids
>    (egid=1001, want=25)
>    can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
>    Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
>
> Obviously I meant:
>
>    mkn at shrewd$ mail -c test at knigma.org test at knigma.org
>
> which works absolutely fine, so it's not a major problem.
>
> I'd just be interested in knowing why my mistake lead to such an odd
> message!  I believe my sendmail / clientmqueue permissions are the
> installed default and sane.
>

Whar are the permissions on /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail and
/var/spool/clientmqueue? For the record, you should have it in group
smmsp, and the setgid bit set.

- -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  smmsp  626792 Mar 29 23:35 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail

and

drwxrwx---  2 smmsp   smmsp   512 Apr 10 03:07 clientmqueue/

It is an odd error, but it may disappear if the permissions are correct
(ie: your normal way of doing things may be masking a different problem).

- - Jeff Jirsa

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