Subject: Re: Problem using smap, smapd and sendmail

From: Matthias Fugger <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 11:27:23 +0200

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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ted Keller wrote:

> This appears to be a sendmail issue... the xff34FPoK00789 is essential a
> lock file sendmail creates while actually processing (for sending) the
> mail to a remote host.  Sendmail often forks - or otherwise runs a new
> copy of its self.  I wonder if it is running as someone other than root?

With current versions of sendmail you can specify
O RunAsUser=
in sendmail.cf (the program itself is installed suid root)

Anders Baardsgaard  ---  <[email-masked]>

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Thank you,

I set "O RunAsUser=uucp" and it worked! It seems that it doesn't have to be
set to "root", like expected.

			Matthias Fuegger
			([email-masked])