Re: Sendmail Error

[John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My wild, off the cuff, instant-reaction, guess would be that you've set 
a user up with a home directory of "/dev/null".    Try changing it to a 
non-existant directory ...

jch

Christos E. Chrisostomidis wrote:

> Dear All,
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> I am running sendmail (8.12.8-5) on a RH9.0 box
> and I have recently found the following error in the maillog:
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> Forwarding errors:
>    /dev/null/.forward: World writable directory: 18 Times(s)
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> The permissions in /dev/null are rw-rw-rw-
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> Have anyone any idea what this could be ?????
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> Best Regards
> Christos
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