On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:44:44PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:21:57PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> About two days ago procmail just stopped working.
> Here is the error I see in /var/log/mail:
> sendmail[5115]: RAA05114: forward /home/jlh/.forward: World writable
> directory
>
> I have read the sendmail book on .forward and permissions.
> Here are the permissions of the various involved files (jlh is the user):
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 8 2000 jlh -> /mnt/hda4/jlh
> drwxrwxr-x 9 root root 1024 Jul 23 21:00 hda4
> drwx------ 82 jlh users 30720 Aug 23 18:07 jlh
> -r--r--r-- 1 jlh users 27 Jul 23 2000 /mnt/hda4/jlh/.forward
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jlh users 391 Jul 22 08:58 /mnt/hda4/jlh/.procmailrc
>
> I don't see any world writeable files or directories here, except for the
> link. But, that has been like that for months, I believe, and they claim
> symbolic link permissions mean nothing.
> Any insight appreciated.
> Joel
Aw, forget it. /home was world writeable! I forgot about that one. Sendmail 8
is very fussy. ANY directory in the path that is world writeable makes
.forward not function.
Joel
