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Moriah
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 Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:00 pm Post subject: sendmail: collect: Cannot write ... Permission denied-SOLVED |
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I am getting errors when receiving email on a new server running sendmail. The log looks like:
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Jun 9 15:40:01 rcvbox sm-mta[31606]: p59Je0f0031606: SYSERR(root): collect: Cannot write ./dfp59Je0f0031606 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=209): Permission denied
Jun 9 15:40:01 rcvbox sm-mta[31606]: p59Je0f0031606: from=<rj@sendingdomain.com>, size=576, class=0, nrcpts=1, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=xxxxxx-5.iglou.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
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and my /var/spool directory looks like:
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total 0
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 72 May 30 12:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 145 May 1 13:12 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 19 10:10 .keep
drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 58 Jun 7 14:56 clientmqueue
drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 70 Apr 27 00:33 cron
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 38 Apr 27 00:32 mail
drwxr-xr-x 2 smmsp root 38 May 30 12:17 mqueue
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I have another machine running sendmail just fine, but I can't figure out where the perm error lies. It would be nice if sendmail put the full path in the error message. 
Can anybody help me with this? 
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jhardin
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| Try changing ownership of /var/spool/mqueue to root. |
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Moriah
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:47 am Post subject: |
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I'm sorry. I forgot about this stale post. I sloved this so long ago I don't even remember what the soloution was. 
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zeroeth
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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it looks like /var/spool/mqueue didn't have write permissions for the group
chmod g+w /var/spool/mqueue got rid of the permissions denied error for me |
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lgt42
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| zeroeth wrote: | it looks like /var/spool/mqueue didn't have write permissions for the group
chmod g+w /var/spool/mqueue got rid of the permissions denied error for me |
Same thing for me with default installation of sendmail ( 8.14.4 as of today ), procmail, m4, fetchmail. It was necessary to exec the chmod g+w /var/spool/mqueue to get mail sent correctly.
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seifn06
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Thank you for this post. I ran into the same problem when installing sendmail-8.14.9 on a fresh Gentoo x86_64 installation.
Sendmail appeared to start OK, but refused incoming email messages.
Testing the installation with telnet yielded an error from sendmail:
421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfsB89BR0e006242 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=209): Permission denied
And I would see a message similar to the following in my server log:
Dec 8 04:11:59 an0l sm-mta[6242]: sB89BR0e006242: SYSERR(root): collect: Cannot write ./dfsB89BR0e006242 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=209): Permission denied
I was able to send email (i.e. fixed the problem) after running:
# chmod g+w /var/spool/mqueue
Thanks again. |
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Majed17
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:36 am Post subject: |
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ok setting the folder to root:root and running the command helped, i can now send email as root.
but when i su - nagios
and try
| Code: | | /usr/sbin/sendmail "email address" Great test! |
i get
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queueup: cannot create queue file ./qft7CBUn9r030612, euid=1000, fd=-1, fp=0x0: Permission denied |
in /var/log/messages
i get:
Aug 12 14:30:52 nagios sendmail[30612]: t7CBUn9r030612: SYSERR(nagios): queueup: cannot create queue file ./qft7CBUn9r030612, euid=1000, fd=-1, fp=0x0: Permission denied
here is /etc/passwd
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bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/bin/false
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/bin/false
adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/bin/false
lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/false
sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt
news:x:9:13:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/false
uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/bin/false
operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash
portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/var/empty:/bin/false
sshd:x:22:22:added by portage for openssh:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
man:x:13:15:added by portage for man-db:/usr/share/man:/sbin/nologin
cron:x:16:16:added by portage for cronbase:/var/spool/cron:/sbin/nologin
nullmail:x:88:88:added by portage for nullmailer:/var/nullmailer:/sbin/nologin
mysql:x:60:60:added by portage for mariadb:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin
apache:x:81:81:added by portage for apache:/var/www:/sbin/nologin
nagios:x:1000:209::/home/nagios:/bin/bash
mail:x:8:12:added by portage for mailbase:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin
postmaster:x:14:246:added by portage for mailbase:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin
smmsp:x:209:209:added by portage for sendmail:/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin |
anybody knows how to solve it? |
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Majed17
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Location: Minsk, Belarus
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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the problem was with the write permission for the folder:
/var/spool/clientmqueue
i set it to 770 and now it works, and thanks for the tip. |
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