Sendmail 8.9.3 and binmail

From: managers account <managers_at_mannet.mcb.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:46:00 +0100 (BST)

We are installing Sendmail 8.9.3 on dec unix 4.0b. As anybody who has
installed this will know, it is much more severe on permissions. We can
get sendmail itself to work with all directories reduced in permissions as
recommended in the docs, but binmail then wont deliver local mail because
it cannot create the lock file in the /mail sud-directory.

The permissions on /usr/bin/binmail are:

         -rws--x--x 2 root daemon

Surely as this is SUID binmail should be allowed to write the lock file.
What are we doing wrong?

Dave Clarke
MANNET
Received on Thu Jul 15 1999 - 09:48:16 NZST

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