Forgot to make sendmail SUID. (duh)
Majordomo works correctly now.
Thanks fo John Speno and Mark Allen for their replies.
-Jon
At 12:40 PM 8/25/98 -0400, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm having a strange problem with Majordomo 1.94.4 on DU 4.0 on an
>Alphastation 500. We are using NIS/YP aliases, and I aliased majordomo to
>the correct location on the mail server. When I send mail majordomo
>(either via an email client or the command line), I don't get a response.
>If I check the "Log" file in ~majordom, however, it says that it sent a
>reply. Checking sendmail's logs give me this output:
>
>Aug 25 12:06:42 harpo sendmail[169]: SMTP connect from basso [18.157.1.224]
>(18.157.1.224)
>Aug 25 12:06:42 harpo sendmail[295]: MAA00295:
>from=<jdreed_at_genome.wi.mit.edu>, size=604, class=0, pri=30604, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<3.0.32.19980825120608.009d1210_at_genome.wi.mit.edu>, proto=SMTP,
>relay=basso [18.157.1.224]
>Aug 25 12:06:42 harpo sendmail[232]: MAA00295: alias
><majordomo_at_genome.wi.mit.edu> => "|/usr/home/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
>Aug 25 12:06:42 harpo sendmail[232]: MAA00232: clone MAA00295, owner=jdreed
>Aug 25 12:06:42 harpo sendmail[232]: MAA00295: done
>Aug 25 12:06:46 harpo sendmail[365]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(majordom): cannot
>chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
>Aug 25 12:06:46 harpo sendmail[232]: MAA00232:
>to="|/usr/home/majordomo/wrapper majordomo", delay=00:00:04,
>xdelay=00:00:04, mailer=prog, stat=Sent
>Aug 25 12:06:46 harpo sendmail[232]: MAA00232: done
>
>
>It's the 3rd entry from the bottom that puzzles me: "cannot
>chdir(/var/spool/mqueue)"
>
>At first, I figured it was a permissions problem, but even after I did
>"chmod a+rwx /var/spool/mqueue) I still got the error.
>
>I'm running sendmail 8.8.8
>
>Does anyone know what the cause of this problem might be?
>
>TIA,
>
>Jonathan Reed
>----------------------------------------------------
>Jonathan Reed
>
>Systems Group Technical Support Associate
>
>Whitehead Insitute/MIT Center for Genome Research
>
>617-252-1988 jdreed_at_genome.wi.mit.edu
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>
>
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Jonathan Reed
Systems Group Technical Support Associate
Whitehead Insitute/MIT Center for Genome Research
617-252-1988 jdreed_at_genome.wi.mit.edu
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Received on Tue Aug 25 1998 - 17:05:14 NZST