[Mailman-Users] Sendmail error or mailman error?

[Pete Holsberg]

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Christopher Lindsey wrote:

> > > Probably sendmail.  I'm guessing that you're using a
> > > system with smrsh (sendmail restricted shell) installed
> > > (i.e. RedHat 5+).  If that's the case, you probably have
> > > a directory called /etc/smrsh.  If so:
> > > 
> > >    cd /etc/smrsh
> > >    ln -s /home/mailman/mail/wrapper
> > > 
> > > That will tell sendmail that you want to let it run
> > > 'wrapper'.  You need to do the same thing for any other
> > > binaries that you want to run out of your aliases or
> > > .forward files.
> > 
> > Actually we're running Debian (intending to upgrade to RH
> > soon) and there's no /etc/smrsh.
> 
> OK.  grep for 'smrsh' in your sendmail.cf.  That should tell you
> the location of your smrsh binary.  Then run strings on the
> binary.   i.e. 
> 
>    foreach i (`strings /usr/bin/smrsh | grep ^/`)
>       ls -ld $i | grep ^d
>    end
> 
> The output should list any directories that smrsh was compiled to
> use, and hopefully it will be obvious which one is appropriate.

Thanks, Chris, but smrsh doesn't appear in sendmail.cf.

Pete