From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 23:27:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5C637B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:27:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from cswiger-sec.homeip.net (pool-129-44-40-186.ny325.east.verizon.net [129.44.40.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 008F643F65 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:27:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (prime.local [192.168.1.3]) by sec.local (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0F7GGgY000358; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:16:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Message-ID: <3E250B07.2010803@mac.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:17:27 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Kenneth Tucker Subject: Re: mail References: <42CDA782-2839-11D7-90CD-000393C22E4A@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=8.0 tests=NOSPAM_INC,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenneth Tucker wrote: > mail : > drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 Jul 27 22:54 mail > > sendmail.cf : > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 57504 Jul 14 2002 sendmail.cf > > > I don't know what the Fw prefix does but I looked into > /etc/mail/local-host-names and it is empty. "Fw" means add the contents of the file /etc/mail/local-host-names to class w, which is the set of names for which the machine should deliver mail locally. As for the permissions problem, this is a collision between Mac user expectations about the / filesystem being writable by default (ie, so non-root users can create top-level directories if they please), and security. Apple configures sendmail to disregard this check, but it's probably better to do: chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail [ Note that running the Apple Software Updater tends to reset these. ] -Chuck PS: Apologies for the off-topic reply. On the other hand, there exist Mac users who might run FreeBSD simply because it resembles Darwin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message