Hello!
I am building sendmail 8.17.1 in AIX6.1. I would like to change the default directories /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue to something else. Could you please help me with this?
Thanks&Regards
Reshma V Kumar

Reshma V Kumar wrote:

> I am building sendmail 8.17.1 in AIX6.1. I would like to change the default
> directories /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue to something
> else. Could you please help me with this?

Why do you want to do that?

1. You got the source code, so simply use grep to find those strings.
2. You can change those values in the cf files, see the fine
documentation (doc/op/op.* and cf/README).

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On 11/29/21 12:37 AM, Reshma V Kumar wrote:
> Hello!

Hi,

> I am building sendmail 8.17.1 in AIX6.1. I would like to change the
> default directories /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue to
> something else. Could you please help me with this?

Would you mind sharing the directories that you want to use instead of
the defaults?

I'm curious and would like to learn some about your situation and
motivation to make the change.

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On Monday, 29 November 2021 at 21:31:12 UTC+5:30, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 11/29/21 12:37 AM, Reshma V Kumar wrote:
> > Hello!
>
> Hi,
> > I am building sendmail 8.17.1 in AIX6.1. I would like to change the
> > default directories /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue to
> > something else. Could you please help me with this?
> Would you mind sharing the directories that you want to use instead of
> the defaults?
>
> I'm curious and would like to learn some about your situation and
> motivation to make the change.
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die

I ran into the following error during testing
# /opt/freeware/sbin/sendmail -vt < mail.txt
can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.

We want to change the default directory to /opt/freeware/var/spool/clientmqueue ( which has the correct permissions). We do not want to modify the permissions of /var/spool/clientmqueue.

On 11/29/21 2:04 AM, Claus Aßmann wrote:
> 1. You got the source code, so simply use grep to find those strings.

On AIX, there is a good chance that IBM didn't provide the source code.
After all, it would be of questionable value without a compiler in the
base OS.

There's also a decent chance that the configuration macros aren't
included in the base OS. (They weren't the last time I looked at AIX.)

Sure, the source code is available to go get and look at. But doing
things outside of vendor provided software is another bridge, one which
is prevented in some environments.

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On 11/30/21 11:32 PM, Reshma V Kumar wrote:
> I ran into the following error during testing
> # /opt/freeware/sbin/sendmail -vt < mail.txt
> can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
> Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.

Okay.

> We want to change the default directory to
> /opt/freeware/var/spool/clientmqueue ( which has the correct
> permissions).

Okay.

> We do not want to modify the permissions of /var/spool/clientmqueue.

It sounds like there is more in play, like institutional restrictions,
that are causing you to want to avoid the IBM / AIX provided defaults.

I've always considered AIX to be a strange Unix. But usually one that I
could get to behave enough like Unix that it wasn't a problem. I don't
recall needing to work around AIX. Though perhaps I have wanted to or
thought it would be easier than making AIX behave more like the Unix
that I expect.

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Reshma V Kumar wrote:

> I ran into the following error during testing
> # /opt/freeware/sbin/sendmail -vt < mail.txt

What are the permissions of the binary?

> can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied

> We want to change the default directory to
> /opt/freeware/var/spool/clientmqueue ( which has the correct permissions).

What are "the correct permissions"?
Did you read the SECURITY file?

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Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 11/29/21 2:04 AM, Claus Aßmann wrote:
> > 1. You got the source code, so simply use grep to find those strings.

> On AIX, there is a good chance that IBM didn't provide the source code.

The OP wants to compile 8.17.1.

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On Monday, November 29, 2021 at 1:37:32 AM UTC-6, reshmav...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello!
> I am building sendmail 8.17.1 in AIX6.1. I would like to change the default directories /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue to something else. Could you please help me with this?
> Thanks&Regards
> Reshma V Kumar

I think you can do something like:

sendmail -O QueueDirectory=/path/to/qdir