pray4sno wrote:

I've just installed Mailman on my box and have a small question relating to the "sh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs" error. In the docu it states:

"You need to configure smrsh by creating a symbolic link from the mail wrapper ($prefix/mail/wrapper) to the directory identifying executables allowed to run under smrsh."

I'm not totally clear on what this means... Does this mean that I need to:

ln -s /home/mailman/mail/wrapper /etc/smrsh/wrapper

or

ln -s /etc/smrsh /home/mailman/mail/wrapper

??

I'm sure that this is a moronic question, I'm just totally unfamiliar with smrsh.

I've never used smrsh, but I can tell you that it makes no sense to link an executable program to a directory, or vice versa. If you've installed mailman, /home/mailman/mail/wrapper is an executable, so the only reasonable thing to do is to have a link *to* that file appear in some smrsh directory. (it seems to me that the wording is not the best).

The wording may be trying to reflect the order of args in the command; if you want a link to appear in /etc/smrsh, named 'wrapper', and have that link point to /home/mailman/mail/wrapper (which is how I'd describe what I think you need), you'd use

ln -s /home/mailman/mail/wrapper /etc/smrsh/wrapper

which one might read as "make a link from /home/mailman/mail/wrapper to /etc/smrsh/wrapper", but really it does the opposite; the ln command takes "src dest" arguments to be just like cp or mv. But really, the link points from the otherwise-nonexistent /etc/smrsh/wrapper to the already-present /home/mailman/mail/wrapper, so the link direction is pretty unambiguous.

Thanks!

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