[rt-users] RT on a virtual server

Jesse jesse at fsck.com
Thu Mar 8 13:48:31 EST 2001


Yeah. you someohow lost suid_wrapper's setuid bit.  RT won't work without it (without some  other hacking.

CD into your rt installation directory and then run make fixperms




On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:13:00PM +0000, Kevin Golding wrote:
> 
> I have setup rt on a virtual server and have the web based side of it working but am getting the 
> following error bounced back when emailing in a request:
> 
> Could not create dir /opt/rt/transactions/2001: Permission denied
> 554 5.3.0 |"/opt/rt/bin/rt-mailgate Epoc correspond"... unknown mailer error 13
> 
> The transaction directory looks like this:
> drwxr-x---    2 rt       admin        4096 Mar  8 17:51 transactions
> 
> And the bin directory like this:
> drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    admin        4096 Mar  4 17:27 cgi
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 admin    admin          24 Mar  4 17:11 rt -> /opt/rt/bin/suid_wrapper
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 admin    admin          24 Mar  4 17:11 rt-mailgate -> /opt/rt/bin/suid_wrapper
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 admin    admin          24 Mar  4 17:11 rtadmin -> /opt/rt/bin/suid_wrapper
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 admin    admin        2084 Mar  4 17:11 rtmux.pl
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 admin    admin        2166 May 10  1999 rtmux.pl.orig
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 admin    admin          24 Mar  4 17:11 rtq -> /opt/rt/bin/suid_wrapper
> -rwxr-xr-x    3 admin    admin       14562 Mar  4 17:11 suid_wrapper
> 
> Note that admin is my replacement for root on the virtual server. I'm sure it's a problem with the 
> users/groups but can not work out what to do about it?
> 
> Also I added rt to the admin group.
> 
> Kevin Golding
> 
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