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From: walter@mecky.UUCP (Walter Mecky)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm and SCO Unix using MMDF
Message-ID: <739@mecky.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 90 17:07:32 GMT
References: <9@raider.mfee.tn.us>
Reply-To: walter@mecky.UUCP (Walter Mecky)
Distribution: comp
Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Buettelborn/W-Germany
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In article <9@raider.mfee.tn.us> root@raider.mfee.tn.us (Bob Reineri) writes:
< Is anyone out there successfully using the elm 2.3 PL5 mailer with a stock SCO
< Unix 3.2.0 (Update A) system ? Perhaps someone could help.
I only have SCO UNIX 3.2.0, but I have "rn" ...

< The problem is in sending mail when the program is run by a user other than 
< root. For root, everything works fine. Other users get the following message,
< after hitting the 's' key to send a message (after composition and editing):
< 
<     submit:  [Permission denied] Can't create text file to be queued.
<     submit:  message submission aborted
I had the same problem, if I wanted to reply in the newsreader "rn".

< the failure occurred when submit tried to create a file in the 
<     /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/msg directory. The path all the way down to this
< directory is owned by user mmdf, and the mode is 700. Pretty restrictive, bu
< the submit program runs SETUID to MMDF ! It shouldn't matter, should it ? 
Yes, but submit seems to do setuid(getuid()) for reading the file
of the user. And it seems it does this at the wrong time ...

< Just for grins, I set the mode to 777 all the way down the path, and it 
< still failed. For some reason, it can chdir to the directory, (as the audit
< file shows) but can't create the message file there. 
The reason it, that you must give 777 to all the file in 
/usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home, especially to the directories q.local, tmp
and addr.

< Any help at all would be appreciated. I'm brand new to MMDF
Hope this is a help.
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