SORRY PEOPLE!
I'm still experiencing mail-aftermath, so please ignore this posting!
* Richard Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000602 17:09]:
> Thanks Ray!
>
> I don't know if you've been busy this holiday weekend, but I've been trying
> to send messages to my regular login on my home PC to no avail. I think we
> figured out the problem: I had removed the user execute permission on
> /usr/bin/procmail (I had been trying to implement mutt, fetchmail, & procmail
> on my RedHat 6.0 PC laptop.)
>
> I haven't proceeded to customize my procmail file, but I'm confident
> that at least I'll now be able to use fetchmail again
> (mail would come in, and disappear--not go into my /var/spool/mail/$USER)
>
> AFA the capital S, I suspect that on RedHat, it's OK this way:
>
> [root@localhost rks]# ls -la /usr/bin/procmail
> -r-Sr-Sr-- 1 root mail 64468 Apr 6 1999 /usr/bin/procmail
> [root@localhost rks]# chmod 6445 /usr/bin/procmail
> [root@localhost rks]# ls -la /usr/bin/procmail
> -r-Sr-Sr-x 1 root mail 64468 Apr 6 1999 /usr/bin/procmail
>
>
> May 28 17:39:31 localhost sendmail[3379]: RAB03132: SYSERR(root): Cannot exec
>/usr/bin/procmail: Permission denied
>
>
> Now I'll wager I will no longer get these types of messages, each time
> sendmail tries to do it's stuff. I've got it set up to attempt to send
> mail once an hour, but if I still have trouble the way it's set up
> I'll ask you gurus if anyone knows how to tell it to try IFF I'm online
>
> Thanks again Ray and Lawson! Have a great Memorial Day everyone!
>
> * Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [970101 00:00]:
> > >Does this look OK permission-wise?
> > >-r-Sr-Sr-- 1 root mail 64468 Apr 6 1999 /usr/bin/procmail
> > No. Not unless you are using a Linux distribution that is quite different
> > from what I am used to. The upper-case Ss are wrong ad should be lower case,
> > as below:
> > -r-sr-sr-- 1 root mail 64468 Apr 6 1999 /usr/bin/procmail
> > In addition, as specified, only root and members of group mail can run
> > procmail (making the sgid bit pointless). On my systems, procmail is
> > installed as
> > -r-sr-sr-x 1 root mail 64468 Apr 6 1999 /usr/bin/procmail
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