[NTLUG:Discuss] HELP! Upgrade went bad! My email server is DOWN!!!!!!

[Stuart Johnston]

I think you need to remove the group/world write permissions on your 
alias files.

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/english.html#SM-UNSAFE

HTH,

Stuart Johnston

Stephen Davidson wrote:
> <RANT>
> I HATE IT when things that should "Just work" don't!  I have already 
> spent just under two days (about 10hrs so far) working on this, and I 
> can't afford the downtime anymore!
> 
> I was trying to upgrade my server from SuSE 8.1 to SuSE 9.2, as well as 
> configure a backup server so that my webserver would have a backup.  
> After a Motherboard Failure on the backup server was fixed by the fine 
> folks over at Alter, the OS install went smoothly.  KDE, networking, 
> etc, was installed.  SSH is up and running.  Mailman and Sendmail, that 
> is when things got F-----D up.  The server was running a couple of 
> mailing lists, including for the DFW J2EE SIG.  But Sendmail and Mailman 
> won't play nice, and this Java Dude does not have enough Linux in him to 
> fix this.  I have about 2 days before mail servers start dumping my 
> incoming email.  (This was sent using alternate accounts).  I am 
> desparate!  My client can't email me right now, and it is all cause some 
> config settings were changed, and NOT DOCUMENTED!!!! I have found, and 
> fixed some of the stuff, but I am still down and out!
> </rant>
> 
> This WAS working fine in SuSE 8.1.  I was not expecting a step backwards 
> during upgrade.
> 
> <Details>
> sendmail-8.13.1-5
> mailman-2.1.5-5
> OS: SuSE 9.2
> 
> blue:~ # newaliases -v
> /etc/aliases: 40 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 465 bytes total
> hash map "Alias1": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.d/mailman.db: Permission 
> denied
> WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases.d/mailman
> Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases.d/mailman
> blue:~ # ls -l /etc/aliases.d
> total 6
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Dec  6 06:49 .
> drwxr-xr-x  68 root root 5120 Dec  6 20:47 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   29 Dec  6 06:49 mailman -> 
> /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   32 Dec  6 06:49 mailman.db -> 
> /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db
> blue:~ # grep -i dontblame /etc/sendmail.cf
> #O 
> DontBlameSendmail=GroupWritableDirPathSafe,AssumeSafeChown,TrustStickyBit,GroupReadableSASLDBFile,GroupWritableAliasFile,WriteMapToSymLink 
> 
> O 
> DontBlameSendmail=GroupWritableDirPathSafe,AssumeSafeChown,TrustStickyBit,GroupReadableSASLDBFile,GroupWritableAliasFile,WriteMapToSymLink 
> 
> blue:~ #
> </details>
> 
> I checked the file permissions from a partial backup I made of the 8.1 
> system before the upgrade (I have the old /var/lib/mailman directory 
> handy).  The file permissions are the same!
> 
> SO WTH changed between 8.1 & 9.2 that the settings and permissions are 
> no longer functional?????
> 
> This has my systems email completely down, so please either respond to 
> my alternate address above, or feel free to call me at the number in my 
> SIG. I am VERY DESPERATE!
> 
> -Steve
>