[K12OSN] Using a remote mail server and letting apache have access to it

[jones yeates]

Hi,

ls -ld /var/spool/clientmqueue resulted in:
drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Nov  7 04:02 /var/spool/clientmqueue

-- so that's good.
-- I tried to include apache as a member of the smmsp group and it still
didn't work.  So I removed apache from the group.

None of the nslookup commands were successful.  I tried it with the server's
short name, full name (including domain name) and ip address.  Results are
shown below.

nslookup SHORTNAME resulted in:
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 10.32.140.1, trying next server
Server:         172.17.6.1
Address:        172.17.6.1#53

** server can't find SHORTNAME: SERVFAIL

nslookup SHORTNAME.DOMAINNAME
Server:         10.32.140.1
Address:        10.32.140.1#53

** server can't find SHORTNAME.DOMAINNAME: NXDOMAIN


nslookup IP.AD.DRE.SS
Server:         172.17.6.1
Address:        172.17.6.1#53

** server can't find 208.129.32.10.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN
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I am not sure if I turned setuid off on sendmail.  I don't know where I can
see if it is set on or off.  It didn't seem to say anything in the
sendmail.cf file or the sendmail.mc file.

I am behind a NAT and I guess I should run a DNS server on this machine?  I
was thinking of just having the server's ip address and name in the server.
I don't understand why it is not accessing /etc/hosts to see a list of
names/ip addresses.

I looked in sendmail.cf and it had this:

# my official domain name
# ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your
domain
DjSHORTNAME.DOMAINNAME

# this is equivalent to setting class "t"
Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users
Troot
Tdaemon
Tuucp
Tapache






On 11/6/06, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 20:14, jones yeates wrote:
>
> > I also changed /etc/hosts and added SERVER_SHORT_NAME.DOMAIN_NAME to
> > it, along with the ip address and the SERVER_SHORT_NAME.  The IP
> > address that I'm using is the one I see on ifconfig, not the one that
> > is seen on a website that shows your computer's ip address.
> >
> > I get this error:
> > Nov  6 18:07:46 [SERVER_SHORT_NAME] sendmail[3774]: NOQUEUE:
> > SYSERR(apache): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission
> > denied
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  new problem
>
> Did you turn off setuid on sendmail?  It should run as user smmsp
> for submissions as specified in /etc/mail/submit.cf and
> ls -ld /var/spool/clientmqueue
> should show:
> drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Nov  6 17:00 /var/spool/clientmqueue
>
> > I can access the DNS server.  I am basing that on the fact that I can
> > access websites on the Linux server.
> >
> > Is there a command that I can use to determine the hostname of my
> > server and if it is setup in the DNS properly?
>
> Normally you should be able to use nslookup with both your
> fully qualified domain name and IP address to see if the
> values returned are correct, but if you are behind NAT you
> need a local DNS server to have the 'internal' addresses.
> A hosts file entry will usually work, although sendmail will
> try for an MX record and will use one it finds in DNS in
> preference to the same name in /etc/hosts.
>
> But, get permissions right before worrying about this part.
>
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
>
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