There is an additional remark. When you configure net with netconf, after
finishing the info appears about changes to be done. If you answer yes,
the /var/spool/mqueue will be again made unwrittable.
S.Kucharski
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, J. Pedro Sousa do Amaral wrote:
> Hi,
> Since my upgrade to Mandrake 7.2 that sendmail could not create its
> temporary files to /var/spool/mqueue unless I gave other write priviliges
> (o+w) to that directory. This was the error that I used to get:
>
> Can't create transcript file ./xff0PEULm11441: Permission denied
> queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tff0PEULm11441, uid=777:
> Permission denied
>
> This suggested to me that somehow sendmail was relinquishing its root
> privileges when it would write the temporary files.
>
> I was completely puzzled. I rebuild from source the rpms for mailx,
> sendmail, and procmail always with the same result. I couldn't even send
> e-mail messages to the list asking for help. I read all the man pages and
> looked through www.sendmail.org, rebuilding sendmail.cf in the process
> many times. Until I finally had a good idea :^) and checked the ownership
> and permissions of the sendmail binary. The binary had an ownership of
> bin.bin and the sticky bit for owner was turned off! I changed the
> ownership to root.root and turned on the owner sticky bit, and bingo!
> sendmail now works properly!
>
> Is this a know problem and I just failed to search the right source? Why
> would the src.rpm have these settings wrong? Is it worthwhile to submit a
> bug report to Mandrake?
>
> Thank you for your advice.
> ZP
>
