topic sendmail daemon in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail daemon

phil cook — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:29:54 GMT

Does this look like a problem?

bmhp15:/sbin/init.d # ./sendmail start
WARNING: writable directory /var
WARNING: writable directory /var/spool
WARNING: writable directory /etc
WARNING: writable directory /etc
/etc/mail/aliases: 6 aliases, longest 9 bytes, 76 bytes total
sendmail

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Phil C

Re: sendmail daemon

Printaporn_1 — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:39:19 GMT

no it just security warning

Re: sendmail daemon

Sundar_7 — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:11:09 GMT

Just

# chmod 644

Then sendmail will stop shouting at U

Sundar

Re: sendmail daemon

Fred Martin_1 — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:46:34 GMT

It is a permissions thing but my HP-UX 10.20, as installed, has those directories permissioned at 555, not 644. Not really sure which is more appropriate though.