From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 15 18:13:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA026152FA for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:13:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt4-208-166-127-245.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.166.127.245]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA31662; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:10:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (nospam.hiwaay.net [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA03935; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:10:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199904160110.UAA03935@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: sendmail oddity In-reply-to: Message from Shawn Ramsey of "Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:57:11 PDT." <19990415155711.A26446@cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:10:35 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shawn Ramsey writes: > Since upgrading to sendmail-8.9.3, errors like these have been showing up in > the logfile : > > Apr 15 15:54:48 luke sendmail[27804]: PAA27803: forward > /disk4/home/sunrise/dalriada/.forward.luke: Group writable directory One of the directories in the above path is group writable. Out of the default /etc/sendmail.cf on my 3.1-STABLE (still running 8.9.2): # are group-writable :include: and .forward files (un)trustworthy? #O UnsafeGroupWrites Am guessing the above is enabled on your system. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message