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Subject: Permission conflict between sendmail and majordomo?
From: Gail Hunn <ghunn @ fast . net>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:38:11 -0400
To: Majordomo-Users @ GreatCircle . COM

I am using Majordomo-1.94.4 and Sendmail 8.9.3 on SCO Unix.

I recently had to have my hard drive replaced, and the entire system 
restored from backup tape. In order to do the restore, SCO had to be 
reinstalled from scratch.

When the restore was done, I had to manually reconfigure the permissions 
and ownership for sendmail, according to the sendmail instructions:

chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue
chown root / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue

This fixed sendmail, but now I have a problem with Majordomo. When I send a 
message to list "test", I get this in the /var/adm/syslog file:
Apr 13 14:39:19 relayhost sendmail[12578]: OAA12578: 
from=<owner-test@foo.com>, size=401, class=0, pri=30401, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<200104131449.AA10091@mailhost.foo.com>, proto=SMTP, 
relay=internalhost.foo.com [205.147.227.18]

Apr 13 14:39:19 relayhost sendmail[12579]: OAA12579: clone OAA12578, 
owner=owner-test
Apr 13 14:39:22 relayhost sendmail[12579]: OAA12579: 
to="|/majordomo-1.94.4/wrapper resend -l test test-list", delay=00:00:03, 
xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=prog, stat=Sent
And then the following entry in the majordomo Log file:
Apr 13 14:39:22 foo.com resend[12582] {test} ABORT mj_resend: 
do_exec_sendmail, mailer /usr/lib/sendmail not executable
Apr 13 14:39:22 foo.com resend[12583] {test} ABORT mj_resend: 
do_exec_sendmail, mailer /usr/lib/sendmail not executable

It seems to me that this is some sort of permission problem, but I can't 
figure out what permissions sendmail should have on it so that majordomo 
can use it. Sendmail is owned by root:sys. Both user majordom and user root 
are members of group daemon.
If anybody on this list can help me out, I'd be very relieved. Thanks.

Gail Hunn



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