[leglug-users] sendmail and apache issue with fedora

[Abdallah Deeb]

Hi Chadi,

A couple of things I could think of:
1- How is your script being called by apache? The correct syntax
should be something like:
$mailprog = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -fsender\@example.com";
Where sender at example.com is a valid address (or alias)

2- Sometimes sendmail is set to suid to root. I'm not sure how it goes
on Fedora and I don't have one to play with atm. But, you can try
su-ing as apache (or the username for your apache installation) and
trying the script as that user.

3- Remove Sendmail, it's a hassle to maintain it and it's such a pest
anyway. Use postfix instead, it's fully compatible with Sendmail, easy
to maintain and with a virtually flawless security. It shouldn't be
too much trouble to replace that, mail aliases all the same and if
you're using unix users to authenticate, it's seemless.

Good luck with it :)

Cheers,
Abdallah
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On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Chady Kassouf <chady.kassouf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just trying my luck to see if someone has any idea on why this might be
> happening.
>
>
> I'm trying to send an email from a Perl script and it's failing, I narrowed
> the issue down to the following:
>
> I created a simple script that pipes to sendmail and sends a test email,
> if I run the script from the command line it works fine and mail gets sent.
> If I run the script from the webserver, the script dies trying to close the
> pipe to sendmail, with sendmail's return code of 18432 (a code which I've
> never seen in my life)
> And when the script dies on that, nothing gets even printed into maillog.
>
> System is Fedora 8
>
> anyone has any idea on how this might be happening?
> I'm guessing some sort of ACL that is preventing apache from communicating
> with sendmail, but I'm no expert in that area, so any insight is much
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Chady 'Leviathan' Kassouf
> http://chady.net/
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