On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> > L-M 7.0 upgraded from 6.1
> >
> > Attempting to send commandline
> > mail to:'user x'
> >
> > from 'user y'
> >
> > I get;
> >
> > 'Sendmail:warning: sendmail is set-uid root
> > or is run from a set-uid root process'
> >
> > I dont even have Sendmail installed!
> > I had such good luck with Postfix in L-M 6.1
> > Thats what I went with this time.?
> >
> > The interesting thing is I can send mail
> > outside my network this same way with no errors?
> >
> Hmm...are you POSITIVE you don't have Sendmail installed? Mandrake
> typically installs it by default if you don't unselect it, I
> think.... You might try opening a console window and SU-ing to root,
> then typing "setup" and checking the list of processes set to start
> up at boot. You might be surprised to find Sendmail there...
> John
>
I've had the same problem since upgrading to 7 from 6.1 back with the
early beta. Sending mail from pine results in pine freezing while it
waits for the connection with smtpd to time out. I check the logs and
it's reporting the same error message, that sendmail is setuid root. If I
set sendmail's group to postfix, the problem is cured. Location of the
file is /usr/sbin. Oh, if I run linuxconf after I've made the change,
linuxconf will change the group for sendmail back to root.
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