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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers error messages Post 24746 by RTM on Wednesday 17th of July 2002 09:35:30 AM
Old 07-17-2002
Quote:
" WARNING: Group writable directory /var/spool "
The directory /var/spool has write enabled. It should have the following permissions:

drwxr-xr-x 13 root bin 512 Jan 4 2002 spool

This is a security issue which sendmail did not complain about but now does. Set the world and group to not have write permissions and the warning will go away.


Quote:
" Warning: .cf file is out of date: sendmail 8.11.6 supports version 9, .cf file is version 8 "
Version 8.11.6 of sendmail must have the proper .cf files - there are differences between the files in different versions. You have a older version (possibly left over after rebuilding sendmail or copied from another system). I have normally seen this error when the sendmail.cf file is the incorrect version (and it will not be empty).

To fix the problem - you need to do one of the following:
1. Find a system that runs sendmail 8.11.6 that does not have the error message and copy the appropriate .cf file to your system getting the error.
2. Rebuild sendmail or find the original build and get the .cf file from it to copy to your 'broken' system.

Either fix will require you to insure any changed you need are done in the file - things like

# who I send unqualified names to (null means deliver locally)
DRexchange.internalmail.com
# class E: names that should be exposed as from this host, even if we masquerade
# class L: names that should be delivered locally, even if we have a relay
# class M: domains that should be converted to $M
# class N: domains that should not be converted to $M
CL unixtst
C{E}root
CMexchange.internalmail.com tpa.internalmail.com prv.internalmail.com
# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
DMinternalmail.com

(names have been changed.)
 

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praliases(1)						      General Commands Manual						      praliases(1)

NAME
praliases - print system-wide sendmail aliases SYNOPSIS
file] file] [key ...] DESCRIPTION
prints out the contents of the alias data base used by to resolve system-wide mail aliases. The alias data base is built with the command or See sendmail(1M). The options are: Read the configuration file specified with this option instead of the default configuration file. Accesses the alias database built from file with the command If this option is not used, accesses the database built from the default alias file Note that accesses the database, not the alias file itself. If the alias file has changed since the alias database was last built, natu- rally the output of cannot match the contents of the alias file. Each key argument, if any, is looked up in the alias database. prints out the aliases to which each key expands in the form: where mailing list can be a comma-separated list of addresses to which the key resolves. Note can be used by privileged users only. RETURN VALUE
The utility exits with 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. DIAGNOSTICS
key was not found in the alias database. EXAMPLES
The output reveals that is aliased to is aliased to and that there is no alias for the key WARNINGS
Because supports NIS aliases, some NIS key-words may appear in the output. These key-words, which include and may be safely ignored; they merely indicate that is properly updating the alias database. AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. FILES
default alias file default alias database SEE ALSO
sendmail(1M). praliases(1)
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