Uhhh. This is strange. What version of sendmail and which distro?
Usually, the symlinks have to go in /etc/smrsh. And does your perl
script have execute permission? And do its parent directories have
world-read permissions?
--Bruce
"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I am having a weird issue with Sendmail. I set up a filtering system,
> and I set up my .forward to pipe my mail through the perl script. I'm
> using smrsh, so I made a symlink to /usr/local/bin/hldfilter in
> /usr/lib/sm.bin. /home is owned/grouped root, and set to 775. If I set
> it to 755, I don't get any mail for some reason. Because of this, I get
> these errors in /var/log/mail.log:
>
> Apr 6 19:02:20 marvin sendmail[29919]: TAA29919:
> from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=4255, class=-60, pri=142255, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP,
> relay=ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com [161.114.1.208]
> Apr 6 19:02:20 marvin sendmail[29920]: TAA29919: forward
> /home/kenny/.forward.marvin: Group writable directory
> Apr 6 19:02:20 marvin sendmail[29920]: TAA29919: forward
> /home/kenny/.forward: Group writable directory
>
> If I use the "DontBlameSendmail" option in sendmail.cf and set it to
> "ForwardFileInUnsafeDirPathSafe, GroupWritableForwardFileSafe,
> ForwardFileInUnsafeDirPath", smrsh complains with these messages:
>
> Apr 6 18:34:01 marvin smrsh: uid 1000: attempt to use hldfilter
> Apr 6 18:34:01 marvin sendmail[29854]: SAA29853: to="|hldfilter",
> ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1000/1000), delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Service unavailable
> Apr 6 18:34:01 marvin sendmail[29854]: SAA29853: SAA29854: DSN: Service
> unavailable
> Apr 6 18:34:01 marvin smrsh: uid 1000: attempt to use hldfilter
> Apr 6 18:34:01 marvin sendmail[29854]: SAA29854: to="|hldfilter",
> ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1000/1000), delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Service unavailable
> Apr 6 18:34:01 marvin sendmail[29854]: SAA29854: SAB29854: return to
> sender: Service unavailable
> Apr 6 18:34:01 marvin smrsh: uid 1000: attempt to use hldfilter
> Apr 6 18:34:01 marvin sendmail[29854]: SAB29854: to="|hldfilter",
> ctladdr=kenny
> (1000/1000), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Service
> unavailable
> Apr 6 18:34:01 marvin sendmail[29854]: SAA29854: Saved message in
> /var/lib/sendmail/dead.letter
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction here?
>
> TIA,
> Kenny
>
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