--- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:14 PM, L Goodwin wrote: > [ ... ] > > Should I be calling "mail" or "sendmail", and > which > > mail or sendmail should I invoke if there is more > than > > one of either? Chuck's example calls sendmail in > a > > path that does not exist on my system (my sendmail > is > > in /usr/sbin/). I usually invoke whichever one is > > first in my path. > > As others have said, there is more than one way to > do the same task, > but you asked to run sendmail in particular, rather > than something else. > > The path I used was that to the actual sendmail > binary, rather than > the /usr/sbin wrapper which (on the particular > machine I used, > anyway) would invoke Postfix instead. You can find > more details from > "man mailwrapper".
Thanks, Chuck! That's the man page I needed to see... > > > One more question. Is it ok to run the script (and > > send the email) as user root, or should I create a > > user account with more limited permissions -- if > so, > > what limits should I set? > > The simple answer is that you should try not to run > things as root > when you can do them as a normal user. If you wish > the email to > contain arbitrary envelope from-addresses, be aware > that only root > can do so without a warning message unless you use > this FEATURE (see / > usr/share/sendmail/cf/README): > > > use_ct_file Read the file > /etc/mail/trusted-users file to get the > > names of users that will be > ``trusted'', that is, > > able to > > set their envelope from address > using -f without > > generating > > a warning message. The actual > filename can be > > overridden > > by redefining confCT_FILE. > > Someone else has already provided another example of > a controlled > access email script which checks for the right UID. > > -- > -Chuck > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"