Original post:
> Has anyone experienced this and know how to correct it?
>
> % mailx sadvary
> Subject: test
> 1
> 2
> 3
> EOT
> /usr1/sadvary> can't open database '_at_' [/var/adm/sendmail/aliases]: Permission
> denied
> queuename: Cannot create "qfAA01225" in "/var/spool/mqueue": Permission denied
>
>
> We can receive email from the outside but are totally unable to send out to
> other sites or even locally on the same host. We are running Pine with
> Procmail on OSF v3.2A but the problem seems to be with sendmail, I guess.
>
> We haven't done any changes of permissions as far as we know.
The problem was that we didn't have suid and sgid set on sendmail.
Before:
208 -rwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 212992 May 15 15:21 /usr/sbin/sendmail
After:
# chmod ug+s /usr/sbin/sendmail
208 -rwsr-sr-x 4 root bin 212992 May 15 15:21 /usr/sbin/sendmail
Thanks to all that replied! ..the list is too long to give personal credit.
-Bill Sadvary
Dickinson College
Received on Wed May 24 1995 - 10:01:33 NZST