Subject: wrong gid (fwd)

From: Jiri Toman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:32:48 +0000 (GMT)

Dear gentlemans,
using pine3.91 are created queue files with right UID but bad GID (GID= 
owner's group). Right GID should be GID=mail.
Could you advise me. I use SGI(OS iris 5.3) mail server.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely Toman Jiri

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:20:36 +0100 (BST)

Pine doesn't actually enter the message into the spool area 
(/var/spool/mqueue on IRIX), but instead simply pipes it into sendmail.

So there might be a problem with your sendmail protection.  Can you do an:

	ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail

It should look something like this I think:

-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     sys       297016 Jun 14 10:22 /usr/lib/sendmail

Note the "rws" at the start of the protections.  This gives sendmail "set 
uid" mode: it can perform operations as if it were running as the uid who 
owns the file (root in this case).

Also check that sendmail is owned by "root" and gorpu "sys".

If these are incorrect you will need to get a Systems Guru to fix them as 
it requires the special privileges of the root username.

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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