Article:  |
Update to Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3 | |
| Subject: | Still can't get it to work | |
| Date: | 2002-06-17 22:46:05 | |
| From: | jrperry | |
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Since upgrading I have not been able to send mail to external mailboxes. As with the last post I already had the 'don'tblameme' set in my sendmail.cf. I tried the suggested simple fix to no avail. I am a novice at this stuff and can't seem to figure out what is wrong. I have cgi sripts that allow users to register for access to my DB. I then send confirming emails. Everything worked fine until I upgraded to 10.1.5. When someone registers to use the database now no email gets sent and the following error message is displayed in the browser "can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied" This looks simple enought to fix but I don't have a clue. Does anyone have a suggestion ? If so, please email me at jack@perry-family.org Thanks |
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Still can't get it to work
2002-06-18 15:06:07 mike_dowe [Reply | View]
Unfortunately, I don't have a fix for you. I can tell you that I got that same error you describe until I ran the 2 net-info commands in /etc/mail/README (you need to run those as root). Now I can send mail out to external mailboxes though still with the annoying warning:
Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE
I'm trying to figure out how to make that go away.
I contacted sendmail.org and the problem I had. I already had done the suggested changes for Don'tblmeme to get sendmail to run the first time in OSX. I was informed that Apple failed to set the set-group-id bit on the sendmail binary. i was also given the following permissions to check as stated in the sendmail security. This solved my problems!
below is the quoted text reply from the sendmail.org folks, a great group people and have always been willing to help this novice user!
"Please check the permissions as stated in sendmail/SECURITY:
-r-xr-sr-x root smmsp ... /PATH/TO/sendmail
drwxrwx--- smmsp smmsp ... /var/spool/clientmqueue
drwx------ root wheel ... /var/spool/mqueue
-r--r--r-- root wheel ... /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
-r--r--r-- root wheel ... /etc/mail/submit.cf
If that doesn't help, post the permissions for those
files/directories, and the output of
grep smmsp /etc/passwd /etc/group"