rusty@BELCH.BERKELEY.EDU (Rusty Wright) (01/04/91)
Local mail on my DECstation always has daemon in the From line, although the From: line shows the correct sender. Here is a sample: From daemon Thu Jan 3 20:59:36 1991 Received: by belch.Berkeley.EDU (5.57/1.41) id AA04254; Thu, 3 Jan 91 20:59:35 -0800 Date: Thu, 3 Jan 91 20:59:35 -0800 From: rusty (Rusty Wright) Message-Id: <9101040459.AA04254@belch.Berkeley.EDU> To: rusty I suspect that its from the Ou1 that's in the sendmail.cf file that we use here at UC Berkeley. But if I remember correctly, that's been there forever; why don't other sendmail's put daemon in the From line? Is there something other than Ou1 that I should have in my sendmail.cf file? Or should I delete it?
pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray) (01/05/91)
In article <9101040511.AA04290@belch.Berkeley.EDU>, rusty@BELCH.BERKELEY.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes: > Local mail on my DECstation always has daemon in the From line, > although the From: line shows the correct sender. Here is a sample: > > From daemon Thu Jan 3 20:59:36 1991 > Received: by belch.Berkeley.EDU (5.57/1.41) > id AA04254; Thu, 3 Jan 91 20:59:35 -0800 > Date: Thu, 3 Jan 91 20:59:35 -0800 > From: rusty (Rusty Wright) > Message-Id: <9101040459.AA04254@belch.Berkeley.EDU> > To: rusty > > I suspect that its from the Ou1 that's in the sendmail.cf file that we > use here at UC Berkeley. But if I remember correctly, that's been > there forever; why don't other sendmail's put daemon in the From line? > Is there something other than Ou1 that I should have in my sendmail.cf > file? Or should I delete it? Is sendmail running set-uid? (It needs to be.) Is 'root' one of the 'Trusted users'? I seem to recall the setuid problem on SYSV machines, but I guess it could happen on BSD too... Peter -- Peter Murray Neat UNIX Stunts #2: pemurray@miavx1.bitnet 176 Thompson Hall csh> got a light? pmurray@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu Oxford, OH 45056 NeXT Mail: murrayp@next4.acs.muohio.edu
dbb@riscy.enet.dec.com (dave barrett) (01/06/91)
In article <9101040511.AA04290@belch.Berkeley.EDU> rusty@BELCH.BERKELEY.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes: >Local mail on my DECstation always has daemon in the From line, >although the From: line shows the correct sender. Here is a sample: > > From daemon Thu Jan 3 20:59:36 1991 > Received: by belch.Berkeley.EDU (5.57/1.41) > id AA04254; Thu, 3 Jan 91 20:59:35 -0800 > Date: Thu, 3 Jan 91 20:59:35 -0800 > From: rusty (Rusty Wright) > Message-Id: <9101040459.AA04254@belch.Berkeley.EDU> > To: rusty > >I suspect that its from the Ou1 that's in the sendmail.cf file that we >use here at UC Berkeley. But if I remember correctly, that's been >there forever; why don't other sendmail's put daemon in the From line? >Is there something other than Ou1 that I should have in my sendmail.cf >file? Or should I delete it? The sendmail.cf file that comes with ULTRIX 4.0 (I'm not sure if it's in 4.1) should be patched. The line: Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFmn, S=10, R=10, A=mail -d $u Should be modified so: Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=lsDFmn, S=10, R=10, A=mail -r $f -d $u Then "refreeze" your sendmail file (sendmail -bz in single user mode). This is not an "official" patch, but it works fine for the above problem (Thanks to Fred Avolio) David Barrett dbb@riscy.enet.dec.com ..!decwrl!riscy.enet!dbb
avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (01/08/91)
The only thing I would clarify on Dave's posting is --- you should not refreeze the sendmail config file in single user mode. Well, you can but you better make sure that the running system has the correct answer for the hostname call. refreeze the config file in mutli-user mode. kill the running sendmail (just the first one is fine). restart it as it is in rc.local. fred