Re: help, I've crippled my gnus

[Bud Rogers <budr@tanet.net>]

SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> Being able to do something as root but not as an oridinary user is a
> permission problem 99.9999% of the time.  The permissions you listed
> look fine.  Is your sendmail binary properly setuid/setgid?
> 

My thoughts exactly, but I think sendmail is OK.

UUbudr ~ $ ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           18 Jul  5 13:18 /usr/lib/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/sendmail*

UUbudr ~ $ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
-r-sr-sr-x   1 root     bin        264008 Aug 10  1997 /usr/sbin/sendmail*

If I compose a message in gnus and try send it with C-c C-c, it fails with
this error:

Signaling: (file-error "Cannot open" "Bad file number" t)
  call-process-internal("/usr/lib/sendmail" "/tmp/emacsa10377" 0 nil "-oi" "-f" "budr" "-oem" "-odb" "-t")
  apply(call-process-internal "/usr/lib/sendmail" "/tmp/emacsa10377" 0 nil ("-oi" "-f" "budr" "-oem" "-odb" "-t"))
  call-process("/usr/lib/sendmail" "/tmp/emacsa10377" 0 nil "-oi" "-f" "budr" "-oem" "-odb" "-t")
  apply(call-process "/usr/lib/sendmail" "/tmp/emacsa10377" 0 nil ("-oi" "-f" "budr" "-oem" "-odb" "-t"))
  call-process-region(1 310 "/usr/lib/sendmail" nil 0 nil "-oi" "-f" "budr" "-oem" "-odb" "-t")
  apply(call-process-region (1 310 "/usr/lib/sendmail" nil 0 nil "-oi" "-f" "budr" "-oem" "-odb" "-t"))
  message-send-mail-with-sendmail()
  message-send-mail(nil)
  message-send-via-mail(nil)
  message-send(nil)
  message-send-and-exit(nil)
  call-interactively(message-send-and-exit)

At that point there is a valid looking mail message in /tmp/emacsxxxx.  I
can send that message manually like this:

/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oem -odb -t < /etc/emacsxxxx

as user budr and it goes out fine.  

> You might also try using smtpmail and talking to the local mail server
> over a network socket.
> 
> To use smtpmail you would need to set something like:
> 
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> ;; If this bombs, add `(autoload 'smtpmail-send-it "smtpmail")', I
> ;; forget which version of XEmacs we fixed this in.
> 
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "localhost")
>

I put that snippet in my .gnus verbatim and sent myself a test message
without problem.  We'll see if I can send this to the list.  Assuming it
works, that will solve my immediate problem (extreme gnus withdrawal) but I
sure would like to figure out what I broke.

Thanks, Steve.  
 

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Bud Rogers <budr@tanet.net>
I wore khaki when khaki wasn't cool.