Re: one more time

[charles <cfaris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I tried this and got


[www:/etc/mail] root# chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool
/var/spool/mqueue
[www:/etc/mail] root# chown root / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool
/var/spool/mqueue
[www:/etc/mail] root# newaliases
newaliases: cannot open /etc/mail/aliases: Executable files not allowed
[www:/etc/mail] root#

Looks like I may have to re-install.....This is costly and may not be worth
using iTools if they refuse to address problems and I have to wing it. I am
disappointed to say the least.

C



inboxnews wrote:

> This information is from
> /Library/Documentation/Administration/Services/sendmail/README
>
> This is for standard sendmail instalation, I don't know if it's run whit
> iTools:
>
> +-----------------------+
> | DIRECTORY PERMISSIONS |
> +-----------------------+
>
> Sendmail often gets blamed for many problems that are actually the
> result of other problems, such as overly permissive modes on directories.
> For this reason, sendmail checks the modes on system directories and
> files to determine if they can be trusted.  For sendmail to run without
> complaining, you MUST execute the following command:
>
>         chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue
>         chown root / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue
>
> You will probably have to tweak this for your environment (for example,
> some systems put the spool directory into /usr/spool instead of
> /var/spool and use /etc/mail for aliases file instead of /etc).  If you
> set the RunAsUser option in your sendmail.cf, the /var/spool/mqueue
> directory will have to be owned by the RunAsUser user.  As a general
> rule,
> after you have compiled sendmail, run the command
>
>         sendmail -v -bi
>
> to initialize the alias database.  If it gives messages such as
>
>         WARNING: writable directory /etc
>         WARNING: writable directory /var/spool/mqueue
>
> then the directories listed have inappropriate write permissions and
> should be secured to avoid various possible security attacks.
>
> On lunes, julio 16, 2001, at 07:14 , charles wrote:
>
> > It didn't work....I get this now
> >
> >
> > [www:/etc/mail] root# ls -l
> > total 152
> > -rwxr-xr--  1 root  staff      0 Jun 30 01:16 access
> > -rwxr-xr--  1 root  staff      0 Jun 30 01:15 access-
> > -rwxr-xr--  1 root  staff   4475 Jul 12 22:04 aliases
> > -rwxr-xr--  1 root  staff  16384 Feb  6 10:46 aliases.db
> > -rwxr-xr--  1 root  staff     78 Jul 12 08:56 local-host-names
> > -rwxr-xr--  1 root  staff     31 Jul 12 08:18 local-host-names-
> > -rwxr-xr--  1 root  staff     54 Jun 30 09:07 relay-domains
> > -rwxr-xr--  1 root  staff  35484 Jun 29 01:32 sendmail.cf
> > lrwxr-xr--  1 root  staff     14 Jul 12 08:56 sendmail.cf.old ->
> > ../sendmail.cf
> > -rwxr-xr--  1 root  staff      0 Feb  6 10:07 statistics
> > [www:/etc/mail] root# newaliases
> > newaliases: cannot open /etc/mail/aliases: Executable files not allowed
> > [www:/etc/mail] root#
> >
> >
> > c
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Alain Russell wrote:
> >
> >> If you have recently updated the system, open a terminal window, su in
> >> as
> >> root and type:
> >>
> >> Chmod 755 /
> >>
> >> This should fix the problem.
> >> Alain
> >>
> >>> Hey tenon people ....answer this question please >:o)
> >>>
> >>> what's wrong here???
> >>>
> >>> newaliases: cannot open /etc/mail/aliases: Group writable file
> >>> [www:/private/etc/mail] root#
> >>>
> >>> C
> >>>
> >>>
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