[Mailman-Users] Wrapper error

[Christopher Schulte]

Take a look at 
http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-June/001511.html

At 12:10 PM 6/21/99 +0800, z at singtel.telcosucks.org wrote:
 >On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Tom Hallewell wrote:
 >
 >> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 23:09:40 -0400
 >>
 >> Mailman has been working great for several months until I made a couple
 >> of changes on the server.
 >> I had been getting tons of mail errors because the hostname was actually
 >> an ALIAS according to DNS, so I changed the hostname to the CNAME and
 >> stopped getting the errors.  Around that same time, I upgraded to RedHat
 >> 6.0.   Somewhere along the line, I started getting this error everytime
 >> anyone tries to post to any of our lists:
 >>
 >>     ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
 >> "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post be-install"
 >>     (expanded from: <be-install at techops.rfa.org>)
 >>
 >>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
 >> sh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs
 >> 554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post be-install"... Service unavailable
 >>
 >> Reading between the lines :), it appears that for some reason sendmail
 >> is no longer allowing wrappers.  Any ideas?
 >
 >The sendmail shipped with Redhat 6.0 has added security in that it doesn't
 >allow you to execute any external software unless they are specified by
 >smrsh. So, what you need to do is type in /etc/smrsh directory
 >"ln -s /home/mailman/mail/wrapper" and everything should automagically be
 >working as they used to be. :-)
 >
 >Regards,
 >Daniel
 >
 >
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