OK, I don't know how he does it, but Derek nailed it again. The
hldfilter binary was 755. I chmod'd it to 555 and it works now. Sort
of.... I'm still trying to get the syntax right, but that's a whole
different story...

Thanks,
Kenny 

Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:56:28PM -0400, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> > Sorry, I should know better than to leave out version, distro, etc.....
> > It's sendmail-8.9.3 running on Debian potato. All of the online sendmail
> > docs that I read said that symlinks go in /etc/smrsh, but the man page
> > says /usr/lib/sm.bin. I think it's a debian thing, since it already
> 
> IIRC, /usr/lib/sm.bin is the default location for this when you
> compile sendmail.  Most linux distros do put it in /etc/smrsh, but
> I would hardly be surprised if debian departed from this.  It IS
> configurable, so you should be able to verify it by looking at your
> sendmail.cf file, I believe.
> 
> Aside from that, check the permissions on the executable to make sure
> they're not writable, and double check that you have the symlink
> right.  Other than that, I can't think of what might be wrong off the
> top of my head...
> 
> --
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> mine once told me that the world was full of bad security systems
> designed by people who read Applied Cryptograpy.
>   "Since writing the book, I have made a living as a cryptography
> consultant: designing and analyzing security systems. To my initial
> surprise, I found that the weak points had nothing to do with the
> mathematics.  They were in the hardware, the software, the networks,
> and the people.  Beautiful pices of mathematics were made irrelevant
> through bad programming, a lousy operating system, or someone's bad
> password choice.  I learned to look beyond the cryptography, at the
> entire system, to find weaknesses.  I started repeating a couple of
> sentiments you'll find throughout this book: 'Security is a chain;
> it's only as secure as the weakest link.' 'Security is a process, not
> a product.'"
> 
> --Bruce Schneier, from "Secrets & Lies"
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