sendmail on hpux 11.0

[vaman]

I am getting error after issuing following command
file1 | mailx -s "subject" name@mail.com

error-
Can't create transcript file ./xfiA5FP5q27179: Permissiond
hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases.db: Permission denied
name... User unknown
name@mail.com
name@mail.comqueueup: cannot create queue temp file d

[Sundar_7]

Hi Vaman,

Looks like you created an another thread for the same problem :-).

In your last post, I dont see the output of the following command

# ls -lrt /usr/contrib/bin/usr/sbin/sendmail


- Sundar.

[vaman]

Sunder
[/usr/sbin]
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39 Mar 14 2003 sendmail@ -> /usr/contrib/sendmail/usr/sbin/sendmail


ls -lrt /usr/contrib/sendmail/usr/sbin/sendmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root mail 974848 Oct 28 2003 /usr/contrib/sendmail/usr/sbin/sendmail*

[Sundar_7]

I think the permissions of sendmail could as well be the problem.

It should have SUID set so that a normal user can create queue files in /var/spool/mqueue, which otherwise they could not create.

As root , change the permissions of sendmail

# chmod 7555 /usr/contrib/bin/usr/sbin/sendmail

(yes I meant 7555).

Now login as user and send the mail

user> /usr/contrib/bin/usr/sbin/sendmail username@domain.com

[Steven E. Protter]

The user does not exist.

There appears not be be appropriate permissions in /var/mail and/or /etc/mail

Perhaps this can all be fixed by chaning the sendmail binary permissions as noted.

Not sure though. How did you get into this situation? When was the last time mailx worked?

SEP

[vaman]

Sundr
which sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail


The permissions are i think there
ls -lrt /usr/contrib/bin/usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/contrib/bin/usr/sbin/sendmail not found

ls -lrt /usr/lib/sendmail
lr-sr-sr-t 1 root sys 18 Dec 28 2001 /usr/lib/sendmail@ -> /usr/sbin/sendmail

ls -lrt /usr/sbin/sendmail
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39 Mar 14 2003 /usr/sbin/sendmail@ -> /usr/contrib/sendmail/usr/sbin/sendmail

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

Permissions of the symbolic link doesnt matter. What matters is the permissions of the target of the link

# chmod 7555 /usr/contrib/sendmail/usr/sbin/sendmail

Execute this and see if it helps.

[zhang wei_2]

1.Check the permissions of sendmail (Should have SUID/SGID set ,also the owner should be root )
2. Check the permissions of DIR /var/spool/mqueue and /var/mail(The owner should be bin and should have writable permissions)

regard

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi Vaman,
I have not worked on sendmail but i hope attached sendmail configuration guide would help if you spend some time reaading it.
All the best.
Regards,