On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Vicki Stanfield said:
VS>For some time now, I have been receiving the following message in my
VS>maillog:
VS>
VS>Dec 10 06:53:32 thepenguin sendmail[5432]: GAA05431: forward
/home/vicki/.forward.thepenguin: Group writable directory
VS>
VS>It makes no sense. Not only is there not a .forward file in /home/vicki with
VS>the exception of .forward.bak, but also the /home/vicki directory is not
VS>group writable. It is set at 700, owned by vicki with a group of root.
VS>
VS>Can anyone tell me what this means? I have restarted sendmail at least a
VS>dozen times since I started getting this message, but nothing seems to
VS>make it stop.
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 7 01:59 home
drwx------ 96 chuck chuck 12288 Dec 23 15:07 chuck
drwxr-xr-x 7 chuck chuck 4096 Dec 23 15:08 mail
Sendmail globs the tree for this... check them from the top of the tree down.
Are you using procmail to sort your mail?
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