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Subject: Re: Problem with spawned command
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 02:45:47 CDT

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 08:06:24PM -0700, Patrick J. Lawrence wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just replaced sendmail with postfix (19991231-pl06) on one of our HP
> (10.20) boxes and I'm getting a curious error in my mail log:

It works here, so don't panic.

> May 3 16:27:00 crabtree postfix/local[21570]: fatal: setuid(-2): In
> valid argument
> May 3 16:27:01 crabtree postfix/local[21569]: 16C3F82AF: to=<ucdirt
> crabtree.ucdavis.edu>, relay=local, delay=1, status=bounced (Comman
> d died with status 1: "/opt/request/req-1.2/etc/req-mailgate")
>
> Any ideas why or how I can fix it?

Questions: What UID has ucdirt ?
Do you use a .forward file or have you aliased ucdirt ?

For some strange reason Postfix wants to deliver locally using the UID of -2

What does:
% postconf | grep default_privs
say? 

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