From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Oct 1 7:22:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from digitaldaemon.com (digitaldaemon.com [63.105.9.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53A7B37B503 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 07:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 18038 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2000 14:20:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smartsoft.cc) (192.168.0.73) by digitaldaemon.com with SMTP; 1 Oct 2000 14:20:15 -0000 Message-ID: <39D74863.EFA70FDA@smartsoft.cc> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 10:21:23 -0400 From: Jan Knepper Organization: Smartsoft, LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas Krause, CI" Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: _secure_path-error with uw pop3d References: <4.3.2.7.0.20001001153747.00ae1170@wallace.webmatic.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That's probably because /dev/null is not a directory. I guess the safest thing to do would be to create a directory in /var such as /var/home and use that as home directory. Next to that, you appearantly need a .login_conf in the $HOME directory. Don't worry, be Kneppie! Jan "Thomas Krause, CI" wrote: > Hi all, > > we are using the ipop3d from the UW Imapd. Our normal mail user > have "/sbin/nologin" as login shell and "/dev/null" as home path. > At every pop3 request I get this error: > > Oct 1 13:54:26 clara ipop3d[2177]: _secure_path: cannot stat > /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory > > Is there a way to suppress this error? > > Kind regards, > > Thomas. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Jan Knepper Smartsoft, LLC 88 Petersburg Road Petersburg, NJ 08270 U.S.A. http://www.smartsoft.cc/ http://www.mp3.com/pianoprincess Phone : 609-628-4260 FAX : 609-628-1267 FAX : 303-845-6415 http://www.fax4free.com/ Phone : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) FAX : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message