Thanks I think I have it working now.
Ray > > > > Ray Spinhirne wrote: > > > We are in the process of updated an HPUX server and MIMEDefang. > > > > > > I'm pretty sure this is a sendmail problem and not a MIMEDefang > > > problem but perhaps someone could give me a pointer. (It's late > > > and I'm not thinking were well.) > > > > > > At any rate here is what's happenning. > [stuff cut] > > > > > > > what user is sendmail running as? > > > > Make sure that user has perms on the dir and group perms on the file > > typically. > > > > i.e. my /var/spool/mail directory is owned by bin:mail and is 1777 (I think > > it's one... I have rwx+t for group) > > > > and everything in mail is $user:mail 660 > > > > if sendmail is not running with group "mail" perms, it won't be able to > > write > > to any files. > > > > -Ben > > I found the section in sendmail.cf that defines the user and group. > It was commented out so I don't know was used before. > > Change it to : > > # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid) > O DefaultUser=root:mail > > (Is this value ok, or should it not be run as root.) > > Seems to have fixed the problem. > (We have backed out of putting this into production today.) > > This still doesn't explain why it worked ok on the other > system while commented out. > > > Ray > > _______________________________________________ > Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca > MIMEDefang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
