[Novalug] Need a Sendmail Guru

Chuck Payne terrorpup@gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 16:04:04 EDT 2012


I hope this helps gets off the world-wide, because it not...

$ sus
root@post/root
# ls -lad /
dr-xr-xr-x. 27 root root 4096 Oct 24 03:46 /
root@post/root
# ls -lad /mnt
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Sep 23  2011 /mnt
root@post/root
# ls -lad /mnt/nas-sgd2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 27  2012 /mnt/nas-sgd2
root@post/root
# ls -lad /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 22 Aug 20 14:33 /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/
root@post/root
# ls -lad /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/
drwx------ 9 chuck.payne chuck.payne 30 Oct 23 17:55
/mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/


On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Richard Rognlie <rrognlie@gamerz.net> wrote:
> I qualify
>
>
> do the following
>
>
> ls -lad / /mnt /mnt/nas-sgd2 /mnt/nas-sgd2/home /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/.forward*
>
> are *any* of those directories world writable?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 03:05:00PM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> It's been years for me to work with sendmail. I have an issue there I
>> don't know if it's sendmail or Google.
>>
>> A bit of history to help better understand
>>
>> We use Google for our mail. We have a server in our datacenter that
>> sends log watch, nagios alerts, cron job, and so forth. This would
>> then send be forward to Google.
>>
>> Everything was working until the other day, no files have been
>> changed, but now I am get the following errors on my server and no
>> messages are being sent to Goggle.
>>
>>
>> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13666]: q9OGadCV013666:
>> from=<nagios@rosetta.performancematters.com>, size=634, class=0,
>> nrcpts=1, msgid=<201210241454.q9OEsV4h024162@rosetta.performancematters.com>,
>> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=rosetta [10.0.0.7]
>> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13667]: q9OGadCV013666: forward
>> /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/.forward.post: World writable directory
>> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13667]: q9OGadCV013666: forward
>> /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/.forward: World writable directory
>> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13667]: q9OGadCV013666:
>> to=<chuck.payne@performancematters.com>, delay=00:00:00,
>> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30861, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>>
>>
>> It says the message is sent, but what got me worried is this
>>
>> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13667]: q9OGadCV013666: forward
>> /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/.forward.post: World writable directory
>> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13667]: q9OGadCV013666: forward
>> /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/.forward: World writable directory
>>
>> We don't have any .forward, this started just a couple days ago. No
>> clue why sendmail is saying that
>>
>> Also I am seeing this alot
>>
>> Oct 24 16:38:37 post sendmail[14153]: q9OGcbUF014153:
>> post.performancematters.com [10.0.0.53] (may be forged) did not issue
>> MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
>>
>> This is also new...
>>
>> Can someone that is a Sendmail guru help. Please note, production box,
>> can change to postfix. Tried that fight already.
>>
>>
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>> Chuck "PUP" Payne
>>
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-- 
Terror PUP a.k.a
Chuck "PUP" Payne

(678) 636-9678
-----------------------------------------
Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux.
-----------------------------------------
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Community Manager -- Southeast Linux Foundation (SELF)
skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup
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Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD,  an app you want
to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE
Studio a try. www.susestudio.com.
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