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Blargh. I've had my share of ugly UID/GID tangles, but that's a new one
on me... May I recommend a large, heavy, blunt object for percussive
maintenance? (Some things just have to be beated into submission.)
<p>=)
<br>Amanda
<br>
<p>Mike Bridge wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Ah, I think I see where it's getting set. In
the "vdeliver.cc" that
<br>comes with linuxconf (<a href="http://www.solucorp.qc.ca">http://www.solucorp.qc.ca</a>)
there are
<br>a couple lines that say:
<p> setgid (65535);
<br> setuid (65535);
<p>However, I tried setting these by hand to the uid and gid of
<br>mail, but this doesn't work (it thought it was running as ROOT,
<br>which is not a good thing :)
<p>-Mike
<p>On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:33:03PM -0700, Amanda wrote:
<br>> Hi Mike...
<br>>
<br>> Who/what is holding GID 65535? That might tell something useful...
<br>>
<br>> =)
<br>> Amanda
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> Mike Bridge wrote:
<br>>
<br>> > Hi-
<br>> >
<br>> > I have a problem running mailman 2.0.6 on a Redhat Linux 7.0 machine.
<br>> > I'm running sendmail 8.11.0 and linuxconf 1.24r5's version of
<br>> > vdeliver. I am using a "virtual" domain to receive the messages.
<br>> > I have configured mailman to use mail's gid as per the instructions,
<br>> > because this is what sendmail uses.
<br>> >
<br>> > I can subscribe myself to the mailing list and I receive the message
<br>> > ok. However, when I post to the list, I get:
<br>> >
<br>> > Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED
gid 12, GOT gid 65535. (Reconfigure to take 65535?)
<br>> >
<br>> > I don't want to reconfigure to use 65535 because that sounds insecure,
<br>> > and it would break a mailing list using the non-virtual domain
(which works
<br>> > fine). There is a closed bug report here, but it doesn't
give any info
<br>> > on how to solve it:
<br>> >
<br>> > <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=100103&aid=211347&func=detail">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=100103&aid=211347&func=detail</a>
<br>> >
<br>> > Hers is my delivery agent configuration:
<br>> >
<br>> > # Special mailer for virtual email domain hosting
<br>> > Mvirtual, P=/usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/vdeliver,
F=lsDFMShP, S=10, R=20/40,
<br>> >
A=vdeliver $u $h
<br>> >
<br>> > I understand the F=S is supposed to set the "effective gid" to
the gid of
<br>> > the parent sendmail process.
<br>> >
<br>> > I also see that there is another closed bug at
<br>> >
<br>> > <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=100103&func=detail&aid=214154">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=100103&func=detail&aid=214154</a>
<br>> >
<br>> > which mentions the egid vs. gid problem.... I dunno exactly
whether this
<br>> > is what causes this.
<br>> >
<br>> > There are lots of posts from a year or so ago on the mailing lists
<br>> > about this issue, but with no solutions. Has anyone figured
out
<br>> > how to solve it?
<br>> >
<br>> > Thanks for any help!
<br>> >
<br>> > -Mike
<br>> >
<br>> > --
<br>> > Mike Bridge
<br>> > <mike@bridgecanada.com>
<br>> >
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<p>--
<br>Mike Bridge
<br><mike@bridgecanada.com>
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