Re: uucp/rmail -- urgently need help!
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Ok lists, I desperatly need your help.
>
> I have been tasked with moving the company's email from a modem-based uucp
> to a tcp/ip based uucp. We will make the firewall our mx, and I have
> sendmail installed on it.
>
> uucp can copy files (over tcp/ip) between speedy (an SCO 5.0.5, running
> sco's honeydanber uucp) and scorch (a linux firewall, taylor uucp, sendmail
> 8.9.3, mostly a hand-rolled machine from before I met debian).
>
> This error message from scorch's logs is the one causing the trouble:
> uuxqt speedy mmdf (2000-01-13 16:25:00.10 21228) ERROR: Not permitted to
> execute rmail
>
Which MTA are you using? I think also that commands UUCP uux executes must
be only in certain directories. Find out where rmail lives on your system
and make a link from /usr/bin/rmail to that binary and see if that helps.
Also check for world execute on the binary.
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