Thanks Michael for the explanation. I appreciate it. Regards,
Rashid On 7/22/10 6:44 PM, "Michael Stauber" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Abdul, > >> I have been looking for an answer to this issue and found a suggestion to >> the run the following command: >> >> strings /usr/sbin/smrsh | grep ^/ >> >> When I did that I found /etc/smrsh. > > Yes. Sendmail will only "pipe" mails to executeables if the executable in > question has been authorized for usage. To do that, you simply place a > symbolic link to the executeable in /etc/smrsh/ > >> My shell interface shows the vacation.pl and the target in flashing red. >> There is no vacation.pl in that location > > On a "stock" BlueOnyx you should have a symbolic link in /etc/smrsh that > points to /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl > > Additionally you should have another symbolic link in there for Majordomo, > that points to ../../usr/local/majordomo/wrapper > > So it ought to look like this: > > [r...@cbq /]# ls -la /etc/smrsh/ > total 20 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 31 06:49 . > drwxr-xr-x 87 root root 12288 Jul 23 00:40 .. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 May 3 01:56 vacation.pl -> > /usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar 3 21:40 wrapper -> > ../../usr/local/majordomo/wrapper > >> I am also noting that ../../usr/local/majordomo/wrapper is in red and when >> I go to that directory, the wrapper file is in red. > > That's fine. It is in red not because the link is broken, but because the > target file is a SUID binary, which are shown in red by default. > > If you still don't get vacation messages, then keep in mind that you only > receive ONE vacation message per sender address per week. A small database > will be kept in the users home directory that stores which email sender > already received a vacation message and how long ago that was. > > If in doubt, go to the home directory of that user and delete the *.db file > that lies directly in the home directory itself. It'll be recreated from > scratch next time around. _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
