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Subject: Re: Weird Sendmail group privilege error
From: Dan Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, A Sun Netscape Alliance
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:00:16 -0600
To: Patricia Wright <pawright @ tfb . l8r . net>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012121953290.2830-100000@cr104471-a.rchmd1.bc.wave.home.com>

This might help.

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.32
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.33

They reference 8.9, but I don't see why they would
not work with 8.11.  You might also want to consider
updating majordomo to 1.94.5, and unless your 
majordomo UID is also daemon, you need to add a
trust statement in sendmail.cf for majordomo.
Tmajordomo

Wrapper should be owned and SUID root, not majordomo.

Dan Liston

Patricia Wright wrote:
> 
> Ok first off
> System Specs
> ------------
> 
> OS:     Mandrake 7.2 (high security mode)
> Mailer: Sendmail 8.11.0/8.11.0;
> Majordomo Version: majordomo-1.94.4
> 
> Things I've checked
> --------------------
> 
> Ownership and permission on wrapper
> -rwsr-sr-x    1 root     daemon       6755 Jul 12  1999 wrapper
> (been switching back and forth between majordomo and root for owner)
> existance of link in /etc/smrsh
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           35 Dec  9 22:19 wrapper ->
> /usr/local/m.....
> 
> sendmail.cf has a Tdaemon line.
> 
> I've looked at the FAQ and the list archives to see if there was something
> similar but I just can't find it.
> 
> The problem
> -----------
> 
> I upgraded my system from mandrake 7.0 to mandrake 7.2.  During the switch
> over I moved the majordomo mailing lists to another domain running
> mandrake 7.1.  Everything is fine over there (Sendmail 8.10.1) but my
> installation on the Mandrake 7.2 computer is behaving flakey to say the
> least.
> 
> The main symptom of the problem is that users on the same computer as
> majordomo do not receive the mail.  Instead it gets stuck in the sendmail
> queue as deferred.  The exact error is
> 
> Dec 12 19:13:44 cr104471-a sendmail[2426]: eBD3Dih02423: SYSERR(majordomo):
>  openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid
> 
> All mail going out of the system reaches its destination.  The digest file
> area is receiving its numbered files correctly.  It is just the local
> delivery that is the problem.  If I shut down and restart sendmail the
> stuck messages are delivered.  If I mail messages in from outside (ie
> other domains) they are delivered.  If I mail a message directly from one
> account to another on the same machine it is delivered.  It is only
> majordomo that gets stuck.
> 
> I think it is a permissions problem but at this point I don't know what to
> tweek.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Patricia Wright



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