On 16 Jan, Nenad Steric wrote:
| Hi,
| Stop / Start sendmail didn't help.
| during the last days i also did already try "kill -SIGHUP sendmail-pid "
|
| Here are the outputs :
|
| > ls -ld /var /var/spool /var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail/hareter
| drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 30 1999 /var
| drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Dec 31 1999 /var/spool
| drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Jan 17 00:02 /var/spool/mail
| -rw------- 1 hareter users 249599 Jan 16 21:35
/var/spool/mail/hareter
| -rw------- 1 adabas users 17319 Jan 16 13:21 /var/spool/mail/adabas
|
| here is another funny thing, as adabas i can't read emails for adabas
| elm says : "Can't open folder '/var/spool/mail/adabas' for reading! "
| (long time ago we used Adabas as our DB, but i still use this account a lot,
and would need the emails)
|
|
| > ls -ld /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/procmail # if that's where your procmail is
| drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 Dec 30 1999 /usr
| drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 24576 Dec 30 1999 /usr/bin
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65044 Nov 8 1999 /usr/bin/procmail
As Collin noted, these look ok. But I have one thought that's such a
long-shot it's probably laughable. Might the permissions on the root (/)
directory have been changed by accident? It could explain user adabas
being unable to read the mail spool when all other permissions appear
correct. It's a stretch because a whole lot of other problems would be
evident if this happened. But *if* this is a dedicated mail server, and
*if* sendmail is still suid root when it delivers mail (i.e. probably an
older sendmail), it might *possibly* explain all the circumstances.
| > ps -fp `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`
| UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
| root 20560 1 0 00:00 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting
connections
|
| [...]
And of course it would still be possible to read this file, even under
the scenario above, if you were doing it as root.
Just a shot in the dark.
Don Hammond
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