Re: Bizare problem with sendmail

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From: Roy Smith
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1989 22:04

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Yesterday, I wrote:
> It looks for all the world like sendmail has stopped being suid root

	Today, not 24 hours later, I got the answer from Per Hedeland
<per@erix.ericsson.se>.  It turns out that local delivery is handled by
/bin/mail, not by /usr/lib/sendmail (yes, I used to know that) and for some
reason, /bin/mail was not suid root.  Considering that mail used to work,
and that it was suid on the twin server, I have to assume that somehow the
suid bit got turned off.  Obviously a case of bit-rot. :-)

	Who needs software support when you've got the net to rely on!
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
"The connector is the network"

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Bizare problem with sendmail
Summary: Fixed!
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Date: 1 Jan 89 22:04:49 GMT
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Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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