On May 9, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Reinaldo de Carvalho wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Jamal Mubarak <jmubar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have postfix installed and configured on my Mac OS 10.6.3 machines. It >> works correctly because the unix mail program works fine and sendmail >> interface can send emails as well. However, I encounter this strange >> problem. The printing commands, lpr and lp, have the -m switch which sends >> an e-mail on completion of a print job. This email is not delivered and in >> /var/log/mail.log I see the following error: >> >> May 7 00:00:04 MacBookPro postfix/sendmail[6309]: fatal: execvp >> /usr/sbin/postdrop: Operation not permitted >> May 7 00:00:05 MacBookPro postfix/sendmail[6308]: warning: command >> "/usr/sbin/postdrop -r" exited with status 1 >> May 7 00:00:05 MacBookPro postfix/sendmail[6308]: fatal: _lp(26): unable to >> execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: Unknown error: 0 >> >> Can someone give me a clue as to what is wrong? Funny thing is that >> sometimes it starts working on its own and then stops again. > > Show permissions of /usr/sbin/postdrop and /usr/sbin/sendmail. lpr/lp > process owner have rights to exec this commands?
Here are my permissions: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root _postdrop 484912 Feb 11 01:03 /usr/sbin/postdrop -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 572512 Feb 11 01:03 /usr/sbin/sendmail -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 52832 Feb 11 01:47 lp -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 44304 Feb 11 01:47 lpoptions -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 44400 Feb 11 01:47 lppasswd -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 44528 Feb 11 01:47 lpq -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 44304 Feb 11 01:47 lpr -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 35040 Feb 11 01:47 lprm -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 73552 Feb 11 01:47 lpstat On May 9, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Ask Apple. Postfix does not change spontaneously. I filed a bug report with Apple with number 7477314. They asked me for some details about my system, including permissions. Then nothing. I have tried to post to a few forums, including the CUPS forum, but no luck. Can someone offer me some ideas on how to attack this problem? Jamal
