Re: [cpx] sendmail.cf

[Rus Berrett <rberrett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:06:26AM +0200, Mididoc Productions wrote:
>
> Subject: [cpx] sendmail.cf
>
> looking into the mail logfile:
> 
> Aug 14 01:55:26 mail sendmail[84689]: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: WARNING:
> dangerous write permissions
> 
> In fact the file cannot be opened like reported before,
> so no change of permissions possible.
> 
> how should be set BTW ?
> 
> Mike
> 

Mike,

The problem with the permissions changing when download files in a CPX
context has been fixed and will be part of the next update.   

The other part....


> 
> 
> 
> hello,
> 
> there is a problem with /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> 
> we just click on the file for opening it in control panel.
> We cannot see the content and get error message saying:
> 
> An error occurred. Please contact support.
> VSAP Parse error: [Could not parse the VSAP Response: Empty String at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/ControlPanel/MetaProc.pm line 182 ]
> 
> When we dowload sendmail.cf we have no problems to open the file with text
> editor.
> 
> Thanks for assistance
> 
> regards
> 
> Mike Roland
> 

It appears that the default /etc/mail/sendmail.cf includes Ctrl-L
characters (page breaks).  This was tricking some of my code into
thinking that the file was in an encoding other than ascii.  this 
has also been fixed and will be part of the next update.

Thank you for bringing these matters to our attention.

cheers.

--rus.


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Rus Berrett                                                    NTT/Verio
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