On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:22:09 -0500, David Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Larry Grover wrote: >> >> Starting this morning, I'm getting dozens of entries like this in my maillog: >> >> Nov 8 13:01:04 muaq165 sendmail[3941]: NAA03940: forward >/home/grover/.forward.muaq165: Group writable directory >> Nov 8 13:01:04 muaq165 sendmail[3941]: NAA03940: forward /home/grover/.forward: >Group writable directory >> >> I get these messages at irregular intervals of between about 1-15 mins. >> >> Can anyone tell me what these messages mean? >> >> I don't have a ".forward" or a ".forward.muaq165" in my home directory on this >machine (muaq165). I run fetchmail on this machine (to grab mail from a MS Exchange >server) and procmail, and sendmail. > > Sorry if there was already a reply; I did not see one. > > Sendmail is very paranoid about permissions. Sendmail or procmail is > complaining that your home directory is group writeable. It is rare to > need this. If you don't need it to be group writeable, then "chmod g-w > /home/grover". I already got a reply last week (and now it's my turn to be sorry -- I can't remember who it was), but thanks anyway. My home directory "/home/grover" was not group writeable, but the parent directory "/home" was. I chmoded "/home" to 755 and the log messages went away. My permission/sendmail problem cropped up when I added another hard drive to the system (for "/home/..."), mountpoint, etc and moved "/home/..." over to the new drive. Somewhere during this proces "/home/..." got created with permission of 775 and not 755. I guess my umask must have been 002 (I must have done "su") and not 022 (I should have done "su -"). Thanks again, to everyone who helped. __ Larry Grover, PhD Assoc Prof of Physiology Marshall Univ Sch of Med _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
