sendmail and su

[Andrew Young_2]

Hi.

I am sending email from a batch processing system which uses su to set up the correct users. I have recently upgraded from sendmail 8.11 to sendmail 8.13.3

Emails are now being sent with logname and not the real ID as the sender.

Any ideas how to change this behavior?

Regards

Andrew Y

[Rita C Workman]

It sounds like a scripting problem, but I'm not sure I am getting a clear picture.

logname? Do you mean login id?

Are you trying to change the FROM address for each user that your batch processing does it's "su" to?

To change the FROM, you could:

Create a file /etc/mail/userdb
Edit this file with the format:
:mailname
:maildrop

Example to change root to my addr:
root:mailname rita.workman@mycom.com
rita.workman@mycom.com:maildrop root

You would do this for each user in the file, then run:

#makemap btree /etc/mail/userdb.db < /etc/mail/userdb

Edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and unrem the following line:
O UserDatabaseSpec=/etc/mail/userdb.db

Stop/start sendmail
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

/rcw

[Dennis Handly]

>which uses su to set up the correct users.

Are you using su or "su -"?

[Andrew Young_2]

Hi.

To confirm su -

Regards

Andrew Y