Interestingly enough after a "su - postfix", if I try
to run nslookup as user postfix nslookup will hang
with the following:

$ nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: No
response from server
*** Default servers are not available

So the unprivlidged user postfix can acess
/usr/sbin/nslookup since the attempt to run this
command didn't produce a "file not found" error.

Any ideas?
Paul

--- Wietse Venema <wietseporcupine.org> wrote:
> Try your DNS tests as a REALLY unprivileged user.
>
> The Postfix SMTP client runs as user postfix and
> therefore does
> not have the all-powerful privileges that you may
> have.
>
> Wietse
>
> Charlie Whisker:
> > Hello, I have just installed
> > Postfix(postfix-20010228-pl03) on solaris 7. The
> > environment is not chrooted. My DNS server works
> fine
> > with dig, host etc. Yet I have mail stuck in the
> > deferred queue. Running mailq shows many of these
> > entries:
> >
> > (Name service error for sonymusic.com: Host not
> found,
> > try again)
> >
> >
> > Now I can look up the MX records for the above
> domain
> > just fine from this machine. I can do a:
> >
> > I looked at the FAQ and it only makes mention of
> this
> > problem in chroot environments that are missing
> files.
> > This is not the case here though. Can someone shed
> > some light on this and possible causes.
> > Thanks
> > Paul
> >
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