neff@bellahs.UUCP (Dan Neff) (03/14/91)
Please repond to this article in the newsgroup you read it from. Our email is bouncing and the only way to get your responses is off of usenet. All inbound mail to our system is bouncing, and we are getting the following error messages in the /usr/mmdf/log/... files. chan.log -------- 3/13 17:11:37 rmail 1625: Initialization failure 'only root, mmdf and daemons may name source host' msg.log ------- 3/14 1:11:37 submit1626: xin only root, mmdf and daemons may name source host The mail message is then returned back to the sending system. What does this mean. I am currently polling our newsfeed site (uunet) with a crontab entry under uucp. Is this telling me that I must run this under root or mmdf? Sending mail out to other machines is no problem. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. -- = Dan Neff Bell Atlantic Healthcare Systems = = Phone: (415) 925-0121 Greenbrae, CA. = = = = E-mail: uunet!bellahs!neff uunet!neff@bellahs.UUCP =
james@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (James C. Bohem) (03/15/91)
In article <599@bellahs.UUCP> neff@bellahs.UUCP (Dan Neff) writes: >Please repond to this article in the newsgroup you read it from. Our email >is bouncing and the only way to get your responses is off of usenet. > >All inbound mail to our system is bouncing, and we are getting the following >error messages in the /usr/mmdf/log/... files. > >chan.log >-------- > 3/13 17:11:37 rmail 1625: Initialization failure 'only root, mmdf and daemons may name source host' > >msg.log >------- > 3/14 1:11:37 submit1626: xin only root, mmdf and daemons may name source host For a first hunch, run (from the root directory): fixperm -n -dUUCP -dMAIL /etc/perms/ext Then run: /usr/mmdf/bin/checkup Correct any problems reported, except files that should be empty, and reports of incorrect perms (are 0700, should be 0707) in /usr/spool/mmdf/*. Beware that MMDF is very unhappy with database files in /usr/mmdf/table being owned by anyone but user mmdf. Make sure that when you rebuild the database (/usr/mmdf/table/dbmbuild) you have su'd to mmdf first. If you do find anything with incorrect owner/perms, it's a good idea to rebuild the database after correcting the problem(s). It really doesn't matter how uucp gets run - I have flaky connects, and often fire off uucico from a user account to force a connection; polling via cron is fine too. Hope this helps.
terry@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu (Terry J. Klarich) (03/19/91)
In article <599@bellahs.UUCP> neff@bellahs.UUCP (Dan Neff) writes: > >Please repond to this article in the newsgroup you read it from. Our email >is bouncing and the only way to get your responses is off of usenet. > >All inbound mail to our system is bouncing, and we are getting the following I use mmdf on my sco xenix 2.3.3 system at home. I remember a problem like that when I was setting it up. I had to make my /usr/rmail program set user id to root. This made everything work find. I suspect that making the rmail program mmdf would work also. Terry -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry Klarich (terry@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu) n5hts