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From: volf@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (frank volf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.65 problem
Keywords: sendmail 5.65 problem
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Date: 13 Jun 91 13:06:16 GMT
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The last two days I have got some replies on my first posting on this subject,
however none of the suggested solutions have worked yet!

*) First, a number of people suggested that on our site, the mail group didn't
   exist.
   This is not true, the group mail exists ( in fact it is a reserved group which
   can't be changed). The group has its usual gid of 6.

*) Second, I was told that the processes invoked by sendmail may not have write
   permission to /usr/spool/mail and the files in this directory.
   Both the file and the directory have write permission for the group mail on
   our system.

*) I was also told that the the default gid for processes invoked by sendmail
   (as specified in sendmail.cf) should be 6 (group mail). On our site this was
   a 1 (group daemon). I changed this but it didn't help (sendmail 5.61 didn't
   care about a group of 1, is this changed in sendmail 5.65???????).
   I also tried forcing sendmail and /bin/mail to be of group mail, by making
   these files sgid to mail (of course they are also suid to root).
   This didn't work either.                

Other suggestions anyone?????

Frank Volf (volf@eb.ele.tue.nl)
Eindhoven University of Technology
Digital Systems Group, Room EH10.16
P.O. 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands