From: Fergal Moran (fergal.moran at domain wasptech.com)
Date: Tue 16 Jul 2002 - 09:09:56 IST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Reilly [mailto:jr at domain inconspicuous.org]
> Sent: 15 July 2002 20:11
> To: Fergal Moran; Ray Kelly
> Cc: ilug at domain linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Mailman problems
>
>
>
> By default in Redhat, sendmail uses smrsh which will not
> allow you to execute scripts outside of /etc/smrsh. You can
> solve by either putting wrapper in there, or re-configure
> sendmail to use a different shell - probably best to stick
> with smrsh though.
>
> Cheers,
> jr
>
Nope - I'm running SuSE and I have symlinked the wrapper binary in
/etc/smrsh - and I have run newaliases after changing /etc/aliases as
suggested by Phillip. Also, as suggested by Ray Kelly. I ditched the
source installation of 2.0.12 and YaST'd on 2.0.6 from the SuSE 7.3
cd's. This produced exactly the same results as the source
installation. So it would appear to be something fscked on the box.
I'm sure that it is something to do with finger on the box. If I try to
send a mail to any of the list addresses from the outside world -
root at domain <mailman-host> gets a message like this
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:06:21 +0100
From: root <root at domain <mailman-host>>
To: root at domain <mailman-host>
Subject: sendmail-ns1.<my-relay-isp> unknown
finger: Connection refused
~
Whereas a message sent from the mailman web interface to the outside
world gets a similar message with a subject of
"sendmail-localhost unknown"
And a body which looks suspiciously like the output of finger. As far
as I know in.fingerd is set up correctly to run through inetd. Local
fingers work fine - but our firewall doesn't allow finger requests
through.
I posted to mailman-users yesterday but haven't received any responses
yet.
Fergal..
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