topic Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied in Operating System - HP-UX

Oracle sendmail queue denied

Steven Chen_1 — Wed, 30 May 2001 13:00:15 GMT

I would like to have guru help with sendmail for client:

Sendmail for root is working fine, but for user Oracle I have problem as:

"Oracle >queuename: Cannot create "qfJAA04903" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=101
): Permission denied"

The /var/spoo/mqueue is 755 bin/bin.

What is problem?

Thanks a lot!

Steven

Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied

Christopher Caldwell — Wed, 30 May 2001 13:05:15 GMT

How are you invoking sendmail (what's the mail client)?

Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied

Steven Chen_1 — Wed, 30 May 2001 13:10:53 GMT

I use date|sendmail -v my@dom to test from Oracle user.

root user is fine.

Or maybe something is missing. I grep sendmail daemon as:
"quarry #ps -ef|grep sendmail
root 4760 1 0 09:13:58 ? 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections"

I have done /sbin/init.d/sendmail start.

Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied

Christopher Caldwell — Wed, 30 May 2001 13:35:44 GMT

How about the results of

ll /usr/sbin/sendmail

Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied

Steven Chen_1 — Wed, 30 May 2001 13:41:22 GMT

Chris,

It is
"Server # ll /usr/sbin/sendmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root mail 344064 Jun 7 1996 /usr/sbin/sendmail"

Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied

Christopher Caldwell — Wed, 30 May 2001 13:50:41 GMT

Your sendmail isn't setuid, so it can't change uid from oracle to root to get permission to write to the mail queue.

Stock HP permissions are
$ ll /usr/sbin/sendmail
-r-sr-sr-t 1 root mail 409600 Feb 26 1999 /usr/sbin/sendmail
$ ll -d /var/spool/mqueue
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 54272 May 30 10:48 /var/spool/mqueue

Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied

Steven Chen_1 — Wed, 30 May 2001 13:56:59 GMT

Chris,

Could you please tell me how to change them? The problem came from yesterday after /usr permission was 444 (accident), then recovered.

Something are missing then.

Please help.

Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied

Christopher Caldwell — Wed, 30 May 2001 14:14:18 GMT

chmod 7555 /usr/sbin/sendmail

Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied

Steven Chen_1 — Wed, 30 May 2001 14:20:16 GMT

Chris,

Thank you very much and it works!

Can you tell me more what 7 means here (7555)? I am missing sth.

Steven

Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied

Christopher Caldwell — Wed, 30 May 2001 14:33:19 GMT

4000 (= u=s) Set user ID on file execution (file only)
2000 (= g=s) Set group ID on file execution (file only)
1000 (= u=t) Set sticky bit; save text image after execution (a.k.a. leave it in memory 'cause it'll probably get used alot)
Add 'em up to get the 7000. Add that to 555 to get 7555.

Re: Oracle sendmail queue denied

Steven Chen_1 — Wed, 30 May 2001 15:50:19 GMT

Chris,

Thank you very much for the decent help.

I have the similar situation on lp. I re-create network printer via sam, and print job is just hung (all after /usr error before).

Checking /usr/bin/lp*, I get:

"-r-sr-sr-t 1 root bin 45056 Oct 26 1998 lp
-r-sr-sr-t 1 root bin 36864 Oct 26 1998 lpalt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 621 May 30 1996 lpr
-r-sr-sr-t 1 lp bin 49152 Oct 26 1998 lpstat"

/etc/lp:
"drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 96 Mar 30 1998 cinterface
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 96 May 30 10:38 class
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 96 Mar 5 1997 info
drwxr-xr-x 3 lp bin 96 May 30 10:39 interface
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 96 May 30 10:39 member
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp bin 96 Mar 30 1998 sinterface"

There should be somewhere not right.

Thanks a lot,

Steven