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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:44:11 +0100
From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] regression: cannot run Postfix sendmail command
 as non-root
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Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 13.03.2008 23:21 schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
>> Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>> ts@xenon:~/kernel> /usr/sbin/sendmail -t < patch-usb-reduce-syslog-clutter-v3
>>> postdrop: warning: can't open /proc/net/if_inet6 (Permission denied) - skipping IPv6 configuration
>>> postdrop: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1
>>> sendmail: warning: command "/usr/sbin/postdrop -r" exited with status 1
>>> sendmail: fatal: ts(1000): unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: Success
>>> ts@xenon:~/kernel>
>>>
>>> and unsurprisingly, the mail is not sent. If I do the same as root,
>>> everything works as usual, there is no console output from the
>>> sendmail command, and the mail goes out as it should. All other
>>> networking applications appear to be running normally.
> 
>> Is it possible to have your config file used to compile the kernel ?
> 
> Sure. You can find it at
> http://gollum.phnxsoft.com/~ts/linux/config-2.6.25-rc5-mm1

Thanks,

I was not able to reproduce it, but I think I didn't configured postfix 
as I should had. What version do you use ?
If I may ask you, can you put your postfix configuration file and a 
strace -f of your failing command ? on your website, that will help me a 
lot to investigate.

   -- Daniel
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