Re: [Sheflug] mandrake7.2

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, ross wrote:

> all works a treat except for sendmail... not a major issue... 
> using the config files from the last version the came with mandrake7.1, it 
> now refuses to send local mail when started as a normal user!
> it complains about permisions....
> 
> Nov  8 18:20:56 localhost sendmail[1286]: eA8IKus01286: SYSERR(ross): Cannot 
> create ./dfeA8IKus01286: Permission denied

Looks to me like the Sendmail binary wasn't installed setuid.  Unless
you're going to do a Sun weirdness with it (they use setgid instead, which
means patches to *every* mail utility on the system), chown root.root and
then chmod 4755 it.

Cheers

Richard


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