Hi,

what we found out after PP7 installation was that we had to change the Posix
permissions in general the following way:

chmod.hpbin.sys "-R o+r /usr/man/"
chmod.hpbin.sys "-R o+r /usr/lib/"
chmod.hpbin.sys "-R o+r /etc/"

and for the sake of Sendmail/iX
change file /etc/mailx.rc via vi to point to /SENDMAIL/PUB/SENDMAIL instead of
TSMAIL,
:CHMOD.HPBIN "777 /usr/mail" and :CHMOD.HPBIN "644 /etc/mailx.rc",
:LINKEDIT ALTPROG TSMAIL.HPBIN.SYS;cap=BA,IA,PH,PM

If you had a localized /etc/profile it has been overwritten as well by the HP
default one's
so that I always have a /etc/profile.local to be copied to /etc/profile

Hope that will help, best regards, Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany






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Subject:  Re: email from MPEiX -- sendmail.cf permissions



Tom Emerson writes that he cannot get Sendmail/iX to work without SM
capability:

We also found file permissions confusing....

Any time that the Sendmail/iX's configuration is changed, you have to
remember to reset the file permissions.

Finally, I moved sendmail.cf to /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc and created a link to it
in /etc.
newlink /etc/sendmail.cf /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc/sendmail.cf

Any time that the sendmail.cf may have changed, we execute the following
before starting JDAEMON:
chown SERVER.SENDMAIL /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc/sendmail.cf
chmod 0644 /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc/sendmail.cf

Likewise for aliases & majordomo.aliases

We have never tried to use MAILX. Instead we created a shell script which
runs /SENDMAIL/PUB/SENDMAIL See Mark Bixby's MAILSPF for a comprehensive
example.

Since we did this, Sendmail/iX has been wonderful.

I hope this helps
Campbell Fethers
Systems Manager
CANNEX (Aust) Pty Ltd