problem with mail of user

[Jairo Campana]

hello after of to have turned my system into way j the user netrangr cannot receive email from the application netranger.
the mail.log is:
Dec 19 15:43:31 nms1 sendmail[22222]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(netrangr): queuename: Cannot create "qfPAA22222" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=103): Permission denied

that it can be happening

[Christopher Caldwell]

show owner, group, perms for
/var/spool/mqueue:

ll -d /var/spool/mqueue

show who UID 103 is:

grep :103: /etc/passwd

[Patrick Wallek]

Check the permissions of the /var/spool/mqueue directory. Here are permissions for all directories down to /var/spool/mqueue:

dr-xr-xr-x 20 bin bin 2048 Nov 7 09:25 /var
dr-xr-xr-x 13 bin bin 1024 Feb 5 2001 /var/spool
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 1024 Dec 19 01:30 /var/spool/mqueue

[Jairo Campana]

# ll -d /var/spool/mqueue
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 5120 Dec 19 15:51 /var/spool/mqueue

nms1 # grep 103 /etc/passwd
netrangr:*:103:103::/usr/nr:/usr/bin/ksh
nms1 #

[Jairo Campana]

nms1 # ll -d /var
dr-xr-xr-x 22 bin bin 1024 Jul 2 16:50 /var
nms1 # ll -d /var/spool
dr-xr-xr-x 15 bin bin 1024 Sep 20 11:13 /var/spool
nms1 # ll -d /var/spool/mqueue
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 5120 Dec 19 15:55 /var/spool/mqueue
nms1 #

[Patrick Wallek]

Do a:

# ps -ef | grep sendmail

to see if sendmail is running and to see which user is running sendmail.

It should be run as root.

[Craig Rants]

What about /var and /var/spool ?

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Change the mqueue directory permission to 777 and try. It should have worked with 755.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Jairo Campana]

# ps -ef|grep sendmail|grep -v grep
root 19054 1 0 15:34:53 ? 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
#

[Jairo Campana]

sanjay;
now it works ok . whit 777 mqueue
the problem now is the warnin writabla for world in /var/spool/mqueue
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start
WARNING: World writable directory /var/spool/mqueue
/etc/mail/aliases: 6 aliases, longest 9 bytes, 76 bytes total
sendmail
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[Sanjay_6]

Hi Jairo,

The standard directory permission for /var/spoo/mqueue is 755. When you gave the permission 777 it became world writable. It should not be a problem if this is within your local network. You can still set your directory permission to 755 and try restarting the sendmail daemon.

chmod 755 /var/spool/mqueue
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

note : /var/spoo/mqueue and /usr/spool/mqueue are same.

Hope this helps.

regds

[Christopher Caldwell · Accepted solution]

when the mail queue was 777, give us the perms of the spool file that actually got written.

ll /var/spool/mqueue
you should see things like
-rw------- 1 root mail 854 Dec 19 14:30 qfSAA26174

Also show us the perms on sendmail itself
ll /usr/sbin/sendmail

you should see something like
-r-sr-sr-t 1 root mail

It seems like either sendmail isn't setuid'ing or it's running as the wrong user.

[Jairo Campana]

Cristopher, the problem is what
/usr/sbin/sendmail have perms 555
# ll /usr/sbin/sendmail
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root mail 823296 May 10 2000 /usr/sbin/sendmail

that I can do?

[Steven Gillard_2]

You can correct the permissions on sendmail with:

# chmod ug+s,o+t /usr/sbin/sendmail

Regards,
Steve

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Jairo,

The file /usr/sbin/sendmail should have permission -r-sr-sr-t.

Hope this helps.

Regds