Problem with mutt

Neil Cherry ncherry at comcast.net
Wed Dec 21 19:28:30 UTC 2005


lists at ralii.com wrote:
> Sorry for not quoting the pertinent text but fighting a firewall blockage at the moment....
> 
> Any chance that some recursive chmod'ing has been done on your system?
> 
> Doublecheck the permissions and ownership of /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
> 
>> # ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
>> -rwxr-sr-x  1 root smmsp 774264 May  6  2005 /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
> 
> To fix you can do:
> 
> chown root:smmsp /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
> chmod 2755 /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail

That is so weird, sendmail ended up with my user as owner/group!
Thanks, works much better now.

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