Odd sendmail error

[Mark Knight]

In message <20030410103334.X8910-100000 at boris.st.hmc.edu>, Jeff Jirsa 
<jeff at unixconsults.com> writes
>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).

mkn at shrewd$ ls -l /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  smmsp  585976 Apr  1 19:07 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
mkn at shrewd$ ls -ld /var/spool/clientmqueue
drwxrwx---  2 smmsp  smmsp  512 Apr 11 07:46 /var/spool/clientmqueue
mkn at shrewd$

Cheers,
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Mark A. R. Knight                               finger: markk at knigma.org
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