On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Razmik Ghanahgounian wrote:
> ..hmm, i do a ps aux and it clearly indicates that sendmail is running as
> user=root. So why cant it see the wrapper prog without world read/execute.
Sendmail usually forks as daemon before starting the program. It should be
enough to make it world executable. It isnīt necessary to make it world
readable.
> > > -r-sr-x--- root mail
> > >
> > > As soon as I make the wrapper world read and execute, it works. Now why
> > > cant sendmail see the wrapper program when reading the alias file
> > > without world read and execute??
> >
> > You answered your own question. If your mail was running as either
> > user=root or group=mail, then wrapper would work. Since it doesn't,
> > then your mail system is not running as root or mail.
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Mats Dufberg Mats.Dufberg@abc.se
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