Title: Sendmail error, Linux. WARNING: RunAsGid for MSP ignored, check group ids (egid=500, want=51) can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied

What dose the perl code that submitts the mail look like?

The directory /var/spool/clientmqueue should be created to hold the mail queue. This directory should be mode 770 and owned by user smmsp, group smmsp.

I got the above message at sendmail.org http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/op-sh-1.html

So even you change to office:office, it will change back to smmsp:smmsp and give you the error afer mail send

Hope this info can help :)

drwxrwx---    2 smmsp    smmsp        4096 Sep 19 11:55 clientmqueue

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "P3P: CP=\"NOI DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa OUR IND UNI COM NAV INT\"\n";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print "Sending email...<br>";
$in{'email'} = "clinton\@hitcents.com";
open(MAILER, "|/usr/lib/sendmail $in{'email'}") || die "Error: can not open mail pipe.\n";
print MAILER "To: $in{'fremail'}\n";
print MAILER "From: $in{'youremail'}\n";
print MAILER "Subject: Jackson's Orchard\n\n";
print MAILER "Hey $in{'frname'},\n\nCheck out this product I just found on Jackonsorchard.com. \nhttp://www.jacksonsorchard.com/item.cgi?cat=$in{'cat'}&num=$in{'num'}\n\n$in{'personal'}\n\nThanks $in{'yourname'}";
close MAILER;
              

exit;



Stills ame error

Having tried your code on a RedHat 9 box, suitably modified to mail the message to my self, I don't get that error.  So I'm wondering if this might be a mail config issue.  You could get that error if you've changed the definition of the smmsp user in /etc/mail/submit.cf or via an option in the startup of the MSP agent.  From the compile of sendmail the MSP must be run as the smmsp user (UID=51).

I need help to fix it!

Anyone know how?

Let's see if we can figure out what's going on... I'd like to see:

1) The output from 'grep smmsp /etc/passwd'
2) The output from 'grep office /etc/passwd'
3) The contents of /etc/group
4) The contents of /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
5) The output of 'ls -l /etc/init.d/sendmail'
6) The output from 'grep RunAs /etc/mail/*.cf'
7) The output of 'rpm -q sendmail'

That ought to do for starters.

1) smmsp:x:51:51::/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin
2) office:x:500:500::/home/office:/bin/bash
3) root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin,adm
adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:root
lp:x:7:daemon,lp
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root
mail:x:12:mail
news:x:13:news
uucp:x:14:uucp
man:x:15:
games:x:20:
gopher:x:30:
dip:x:40:
ftp:x:50:
lock:x:54:
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:
rpm:x:37:
floppy:x:19:
vcsa:x:69:
utmp:x:22:
nscd:x:28:
slocate:x:21:
sshd:x:74:
rpc:x:32:
rpcuser:x:29:
nfsnobody:x:65534:
mailnull:x:47:
smmsp:x:51:
pcap:x:77:
apache:x:48:
squid:x:23:
webalizer:x:67:
xfs:x:43:
named:x:25:
ntp:x:38:
mailman:x:41:
office:x:500:
rich:x:501:
richssh:x:502:
scott:x:503:
clinton:x:504:
support:x:505:
support_kenny:x:506:
drew:x:507:
scottssh:x:508:
ftpsecure:x:509:
wuhusupport:x:510:
icecast:x:511:
data:x:512:
data_sec123:x:513:
sjames:x:514:  

4) DAEMON=yes
QUEUE=1h
5) -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2444 Aug 26 07:02 /etc/init.d/sendmail
6) /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:#O RunAsUser=sendmail
/etc/mail/submit.cf:O RunAsUser=smmsp
7) sendmail-8.12.8-6.90

Okay, all of that looks correct. What does 'ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail' show?

chown root.smmsp /usr/sbin/sendmail
(Or /usr/lib/sendmail dedpending on the distro)

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