Could not read executable /usr/sbin/sendmail

[Jason Ede]

It will almost certainly be permissions on /usr/sbin

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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Neil Wilson [neilw at dcdata.co.za]
Sent: 23 October 2007 08:56
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Could not read executable /usr/sbin/sendmail

UxBoD wrote:
> Hmmm, okay.  Does MS run as a non root user ? If so, can you su to that user and try and run /usr/sbin/sendmail.  Just to ensure permissions higher up the tree are okay.

mail:~ # su postfix
postfix at mail:/root> /usr/sbin/sendmail
bash: /usr/sbin/sendmail: Permission denied

Hmmm, I've confirmed this on another system and I can access the file
when running as postfix.

Thanks will try and find out why I can't on this one now.

Much appreciated.

Regards.

Neil.

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