[SunHELP] sendmail + solaris

[David Bishop]

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On Thursday 04 October 2001 08:05 am, Leslie V Brigance wrote:
> Any chance that you have permissions problems due to NFS mount issue(s) or
> are all the filesystems local?

They are local, however I figured out what was wrong: I can't read :-)  Once 
I followed the instructions in sendmail/SECURITY, it works great.  Now the 
only problem I have left is the fqdn thing (and a weird address canonify 
problem that is probably an artifact of the old system).

Thanks for everybody's help so far!

D.A.Bishop


> David Bishop <tech at bishop.dhs.org>@sunhelp.org on 10/04/2001 09:54:25 AM
>
> Sorry to send this again, but I never saw it show up the first time....
>
>
> I'm trying to bring my network out from the stoneage of hand-written .cf
> files (shudder), and also upgrade from sendmail 8.7.x to 8.12.1.  I'm
> starting
> at the edges and working my way inwards, so my first box is just a
> workstation that will end up as a nullmailer, relaying to the mailhub.  My
> sendmail.mc is incredibally small, consisting of:
> <blah>
> OSTYPE(solaris2)
> FEATURE(`nocanonify')
> FEATURE(nullclient, pemailhub.micron.com)
>
> Now, on to the problem(s).
>
> 1)  We don't use dns, just nis.  All lookups go through nis, if they aren't
> local then the master server looks it up via dns and returns it via nis.
> However, sendmail doesn't want to follow the rules setup in nsswitch.conf,
> and complains about not being able to lookup the fqdn of the host it's
> running on.  How do I tell it to either not care or look it up via nis
> (which
> it was doing previously, apparently, because we didn't have this problem).
>
> 2)  I had to add the user/group of smmsp, which is fine.  However, when it
> tries to write to the queue directory it complains that it doesn't have
> permission.  I have chown'ed and chgrp'ed /var/spool/mqueue to smmsp, set
> it
> to 755, and finally in desperation, 777.  It still says it can't "create
> create queue temp file ./tff93LldIK014485".  So, I figured, it's not using
> /var/spool/mqueue as the queue directory anymore.  So I check the generated
> sendmail.cf and it has "O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue".  Then I decide
> to write you guys :-) Here's the ls -l output:
> drwxrwxrwx   2 smmsp    smmsp        512 Oct  3 15:48 mqueue/
>
> Any hints/tips/ways of enabling debug output (sendmail.org basically said
> "look at the code", which isn't too helpful), I would greatly appreciate
> it.
> This is on a ss20 running solaris8.
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