[Mailman-Users] Error 126

[Victoriano Giralt]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount wrote:

> > >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > > /web/cgi-bin/mailman/mail/wrapper: permission denied
> > -------------------------------------^
> > Your MTA has no permisions to execute the wrapper program that gets the
> > messages distributed to the list.
> 
> Thanks a lot, but I`m still not quite sure. I use sendmail (standard
> installation by FreeBSD 3.4) and a ps aux gives me
> 
> root        215  0.0  0.8  1284  508  ??  Is   Tue10AM   0:12.88 sendmail:
> accepting connections on port 25 (sen
> 
> which I figure means that it runs as root. And root has access to the
> wrapper. Or does sendmail use another user for delivering mails?
This only says that root started sendmail, but sendmail disvests from root
privileges when spawning external commands. It will try to run them as
user mail (group mail) or as the user configured in RunAsUser in
sendmail.cf


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Victoriano Giralt
Systems Programmer
Central Computing Facility
University of Málaga
SPAIN