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From: steve@txsil.UUCP (Steve McConnel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: new Unix 3.2 and permission problem??
Message-ID: <256@txsil.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 21:24:20 GMT
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Reply-To: steve@txsil.UUCP (Steve McConnel)
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Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas TX
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In article <8911271655.AA04386@decwrl.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com
 (Willy Paine) writes:
>
>I recently upgrade to SCO Unix 3.2 from Xenix . . .
>I tried to send mail out of Elm 2.2 PL8 and Mush but I am getting exact
>same error message:
>
>[Permission denied] Can't Create text file to be queued.
> . . .

We've had similar problems with SCO UNIX V/386 version 3.2

The exact same message popped out from the Rnmail script at the point it
invoked "/usr/lib/sendmail -t <XXX" to send a message.  I think the message
itself comes from inside /usr/mmdf/bin/submit, but haven't yet figured out
a fix.  doing chmod 777 to a couple of likely directories (so who wants to be
secure other than the SCO marketing dept? :-) didn't help.  The only thing
that worked was running Rnmail (or usr/lib/sendmail) while logged in as mmdf.
Since /usr/lib/sendmail is setuid/setgid to mmdf, and /usr/mmdf/bin/submit is
setuid to mmdf, i can't figure it out except that SCO's paranoid security
"enhancements" have struck again in the direction of making the system
unusable.

Naturally, there's no documentation for either /usr/lib/sendmail or
/usr/mmdf/bin/submit in either of the System Administrator manuals, as far
as i can tell, and no online documention either.  it makes me long for the
good ol' days with well-documented, easily-configured, user-friendly 4.2BSD
sendmail. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
-- 
Stephen McConnel
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