Subject: can't send mails anymore

From: [email-masked] (Francois Donze)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 10:58:44 +0100

I am running pine on Ultrix and something very strange happenned:

I don't know why but the Suid and Sgid bits of /usr/bin/mail and
/usr/ucb/mail disappeared and I could not receive any mail nor
send any.

I chmoded them back to 6755 and now I can receive mails and send
mails using /usr/ucb/mail but if I send a mail through pine,
pine says "mail sent" and I get the following message in
/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog and  the mail is lost:

Feb 10 09:30:36 localhost: 1300 sendmail: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: queuename: Cannot
create "qf~Z01300" in "/usr/spool/mqueue": No such file or directory

Of course, /usr/spool/mqueue exists ....

I think that there is a bad protection somewhere. I checked /usr/spool/mail
which is drwxrwxrwt.

Any idea? 
/francois

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From: Francois Donze <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 11:08:02 +0100 (French Winter)

I got it: The sendmail program lost its suid bit as well .....

It seems to work now. 

/francois