Lokesh Babu M. rearranged electrons thusly:
> "failed to create transcript file ./somefilename ...UID 501 access denied"
> and mail remains undelivired.
> where as this does not happen to root,
Is sendmail running as UID root? Are the permissions for your /var/spool/mail
(or /var/mail) set properly?
jotunheim# ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 404537 Jan 12 21:52 /usr/sbin/sendmail
jotunheim# ls -ld /var/mail (this is freebsd - in linux it's /var/spool/mail)
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Jan 15 19:25 /var/mail/
jotunheim# ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue
drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 Jan 15 19:25 /var/spool/mqueue/
> Can anyone help me where it has gone wrong? I feel all the permissions are
> OK, BTW where its trying to create that file?.
check the way you are starting sendmail .. did you compile it by hand? In
which case, do sh Build install from the sendmail[version]/sendmail/ directory
instead of copying binaries by hand.
If RPM, check that /var/spool/mail exists on your box ... I dont think postfix
uses that by default.
--suresh
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
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