[Mailman-Users] Cannot exec /etc/mail/smrsh: Permission denied

John Espiro john_espiro at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 28 21:05:17 CET 2011


When I send a message to the mailing list I get:

 sm-mta[16327]: p0SJuInx016321: SYSERR(root): Cannot exec
/etc/mail/smrsh: Permission denied
Jan 28 19:56:22 sm-mta[16326]: p0SJuInx016321:
to="|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post LISTNAME", ctladdr=<ADDRESS>
(8/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=31689,
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Operating system error

System: Ubuntu 10.10 Server 64bit

I've read through this:

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node32.html

grep smrsh /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
#####  $Id: smrsh.m4,v 8.14 1999/11/18 05:06:23 ca Exp $  #####
Mprog,  P=/etc/mail/smrsh, F=lsDFM

smrsh is in: :/usr/lib/sm.bin

In /usr/lib/sm.bin, I ran: ln -s /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman mailman
In /etc/mail/smrsh, I ran: ln -s /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman mailman


Still, the problem persists.  I am sure this must be a permissions
issue, then again, maybe not.

Other data:
uid=51(smmsp) gid=51(smmsp) groups=51(smmsp),45(sasl)
uid=103(smmta) gid=106(smmta) groups=106(smmta),45(sasl)
uid=8(mail) gid=8(mail) groups=8(mail)

ls -la /etc/mail/smrsh
drwsr-sr-x 2 root  root  4096 2011-01-28 19:31 .




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