I fixed my problem. Sendmail wasn't complaining about my home directory, "/home/grover", it was complaining about the permissions on the parent directory, "/home". When I made a new "/home" on the new drive, it got created with mode 775, I chmoded it to 755 and now sendmail seems happy. Thanks for your suggestion about changed permissions -- without this hint I'd surely have stumbled around for much longer before I figured it out. __ Larry Grover, PhD Assoc Prof of Physiology Marshall Univ Sch of Med On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 09:27:07 -0500, Larry Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for your answer, but my home directory is not group writable (sorry, I should >have included this with my first post): > > drwx------ 99 grover grover 8192 Nov 8 18:12 grover > > I did just put a second hard drive in the machine, copied all of /home over to the >new drive (cp -a), and renamed the old /home directory (to /oldhome). It was the >next morning that I noticed these log entries -- coincidence?? > > > On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:36:13 +1100, Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:08:49PM -0500, 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 would guess you've recently adjust some permissions. >> >> They are a security warning, saying that sendmail is not prepared to >> trust the .forward in your home dir because the dir is group writable, >> and therefore someone else (the other members of that group) could have >> moved your .forward aside and inserted one of their own to hack you. >> Are you still getting email? (If not, of course, then _this_ email will >> not help.) >> >> | 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 Exc >> hange server) and procmail, and sendmail. >> >> No matter. I suggest you remove group write from your homedir (this is >> generally a good idea anyway - allow group access to some subdirs for >> special purposes by all means, but _not_ your homedir where some many >> of your personal control files live). >> >> | I don't know if this helps, but here's the relevant section of my ipchains: >> >> These messages have nothing to do with ipchains. >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
