On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, James wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:22:21 -0400 (EDT) > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > > On 27 Jun 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 22:02, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > > > > > Not sure where the Toddmeister is going with the .procmailrc file. > > > > I am running boxes from lmdk 7.2 through 8.2, and no such file is > > > > found in any user's home directory. I hasten to add that procmail, > > > > in conjunction with both sendmail and postfix, runs just fine for > > > > every machine on the network. Doing configuration in sendmail.cf > > > > is like learning a new language. darC, any reason for sendmail > > > > over postfix? What distro of linux is on this machine? > > > > > > > drjung > > > > > > > drjung, > > > > the macine I'm running sendmail on is a Linux Mandrake 8.2 box. > > > > actually, I had been running Postfix for quite a while, until recently > > it started doing some very strange things. it was very likely an > > operator error, but try as I might I just couldn't get things > > straightened out. So, I went back to Sendmail. the problem that I had > > outlined earlier was a problem I noticed only in versions after 8.9.x > > of Sendmail. especially the 8.11 that came with Mandrake 8.2. there's > > appears to be a nasty little demon in the package somewhere that > > causes the "cannot create transcript - permission denied" error. > > > > as I posted previously the one way I found to deal with this > > temporarily at first was to chmod the /var/spool/mqueue dir to 777. a > > little later in the day I realized that the user who "was" able to > > send with no trouble wasn't calling the smtp by name, rather by IP > > address. so, I changed the perms of the mqueue back to their original > > state and all is well again. > > > > still...I'm very curious as to what and why this happens with this > > version of sendmail? > > > > -- > > Dark, > This is a stab in the dark, (pun not intended) but I am under the > impression that Sendmail has been doing a lot to "tighten up" the daemon > so that it is more difficult for people to "accidentally" create a relay > for spammers. Is it possible that reverse lookup is bitting you on > this? In other words, it can do a reverse on the IP number but not on > the name? Just a thought, however infantile it may be. I still had it > all on my own. *grin* > > James >
Not to worry James. it was a good thought! ;) I guess that possible, but why would the permissions on the mqueue folder be affected the way they were? at 755 if the smtp was listed as mdw1982.dyndns.org it would return the "unable to create transcript" error, but if the smtp was listed as 192.168.0.1 the thing would work flawlessly. unless... -- daRcmaTTeR ------------- R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!"
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