On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:25, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 09:48, Christos E. Chrisostomidis wrote: > > > The permissions in /dev/null are rw-rw-rw- > > Change permissions to rw-r-r, as it doesn't like group/other permissions > other than read. > I wouldn't advise doing that. Instead to solve this issue of sendmail comlaining about a groupo writable forward file just add or uncomment the line in your sendmail.cf file that says DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileinunsafedirpath,forwardfileinunsafedirpathsafe The first entry after the = means a .forward file can be read, the second entry allows the items in the file to be marked as safe for file and program delivery. Scott
