Bug 15454 – Sendmail user smmsp not present.

• Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-02-10 16:17:59 UTC]

Just installed sendmail-8.12.7-r2 on a system built on the 1.4_rc2 i686 stage3
tarball.  When starting sendmail via /etc/init.d/sendmail start, it fails and I
see the following error messages in syslog;

Feb 10 16:13:04 stargazer sm-cm[23453]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 415: readcf: option RunAsUser: unknown user smmsp
Feb 10 16:13:04 stargazer sm-cm[23453]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 434: readcf: option TrustedUser: unknown user smmsp

The group smmsp does exist.

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-02-10 17:26:28 UTC]

did you do etc-update ?

the group should be included in baselayout afaik

[Comment 2 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-02-10 18:20:59 UTC]

The group exists, but the user does not exist.  I have done etc-update but there were no entries for /etc/passwd.

[Comment 3 Nick Hadaway 2003-02-13 02:35:30 UTC]

smmsp:x:209:209:smmsp:/var/spool/mqueue:/bin/false

it is in the latest stable 1.8.5.8 baselayout passwd file.
You can add this line into your passwd file and you should be all set.

[Comment 4 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-02-13 04:36:04 UTC]

I also had to change the ownership of /var/spool/clientmqueue from root:root to smmsp:smmsp, but all is working now.

Thanks!