From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 10:19: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from webserver.rtl.org (webserver2.rtl.org [63.94.12.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0934637B405 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jstewart@rtl.org) Received: from MIS3C.rtl.org ([63.106.163.130]) by webserver.rtl.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6JHIM210454 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:18:22 -0400 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010719131657.02324598@63.94.12.188> X-Sender: jstewart@63.94.12.188 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:18:54 -0400 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jason Stewart Subject: Re: Sendmail aliases problems In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 This is Completely covered in the Sendmail install documents. The problem is just what it says. It is insecure to have a map in a world writable directory. Jason Stewart At 04:49 PM 7/19/2001 +0000, you wrote: >What does this mean and how can I fix it. Thanks in advance... > >#newaliases >Warning: .cf file is out of date: sendmail 8.11.3 supports version 9, .cf >file is version 8 >WARNING: World writable directory / >WARNING: World writable directory / >hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: World writable directory >Jul 19 09:28:53 ns1 sendmail[73682]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map >"Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: World writable directory >Jul 19 09:28:53 ns1 sendmail[73682]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map >"Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: World writable directory >WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases >Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases >Jul 19 09:28:53 ns1 sendmail[73682]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot create >database for alias file /etc/aliases >Jul 19 09:28:53 ns1 sendmail[73682]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot create >database for alias file /etc/aliases > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message