Sendmail 8.13.3 and vacation

[enrico.nic]

Hi

I have installed Sendmail version 8.13.3, and I am facing a problem that wasn't present in the 8.11.1 version.
I have enabled the restricted shell "smrsh" (like on the previous version), and putted "rmail" and "vacation" in the dir /var/adm/sm.bin (as suggested by the man).
But the "vacation" program does not work anymore, since the e-mail is returned to the sender with this error message:

The original message was received at Tue, 17 May 2005 14:54:06 +0200 (METDST)
from mnaxp [10.0.0.13]


----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/usr/bin/vacation -a user@gissi.marionegri.it user"
(reason: Local configuration error)
(expanded from: )


----- Transcript of session follows -----
WARNING: RunAsUser for MSP ignored, check group ids (egid=6, want=25)
can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
554 5.3.5 Local configuration error


Reporting-MTA: dns; gissi.marionegri.it
Received-From-MTA: DNS; mnaxp
Arrival-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:54:06 +0200 (METDST)


Final-Recipient: RFC822; user@gissi.marionegri.it
X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |/usr/bin/vacation -a user@gissi.marionegri.it user
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 78
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:54:06 +0200 (METDST)

Can anybody please help me ?
The only thing I am sure about is that the full path of /usr/bin/vacation wouldn't harm, since the restricted shell should cut any path before the executable and look for it in the /var/adm/sm.bin directory.

Thank you in advance

Enrico

[Steven E. Protter]

Try providing the restricted user with a local copy of the vacation program. Other components may also be required.

SEP

[enrico.nic]

Sorry but ... what do you mean exactly ? The program has been copied to the /var/adm/sm.bin directory.