permissions in queue.in

[Peter Peters]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:15:16 -0700, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've installed a MS with a Sendmail. The sendmail is
>running as root (as default) and I'd set the MS
>running as smmtp.smmtp, as default is run as root
>
>Well, the problem I have is that the messages queued
>by sendmail in queue.in have the permissions
>root.smmtp with 700. So MS is not able to read and
>process them.
>
>Which user should I use to execute MS? and Sendmail?
>how can configure them?

For security reasons I switched sendmail to user mail a whole lot of
years ago. It took some time to have him stop complaining about groups,
users etc. But I have the luxury of not having mailboxes on our MX
servers. So their are no problems with permissions on mailbox, .forward,
.procmailrc etc files.

I only have a problem when upgrading MS. The rpm makes
/var/spool/mqueue.in owned by root. So sendmail can't queue messages
untill I make this right. ("./install.sh; chown mail.mail
/var/spool/mqueue.in" helps)

I have to do this because I do a startin after I stop MS for the upgrade
process. We have a lot of Exchange server and they can't handle DNS
based load balancing.

--
Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/itbe

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