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".
_______________________________________________
Redhat-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
