At 10:49 2004-02-25 -0600, David Bourne wrote:
Feb 25 09:59:09 localhost sendmail[5750]: i1PFx85J005748: Warning: program
/usr/bin/procmail unsafe: Group writable directory
Follow the link in my .sig, grab the procdiag script from there. Read the
script, then when you're comfortable that it isn't set up to hose you,
invoke it on your system (as user).
This should generally point out most of the permissions issues you might have.
There is the possibility that your system is configured for "GROUP PER
USER", where if you're user "foo", your primary group is "foo" (and you're
the ONLY user in that group). In this case, your dirs are generally set
group writeable, but if the procmail isn't compiled to know that this is
how your system is set up, then it'll complain. If this is the case, you
should recompile procmail with GROUP_PER_USER defined in config.h (as
documented in the HISTORY file).
in my mail.log (See below, this may not have started yesterday)
It wouldn't be a bad idea to verify when it started by checking past
logfiles. If you're purging logfiles on a daily basis, you're setting
yourself up for all sorts of secutiry and administration problems. On my
hosts, I archive them INDEFINATLEY (not on the host itself, but they're
maintained in accessible archives).
[/private/etc] usern% ls -al pr*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1786 Feb 4 19:31 procmailrc
/etc/ and /usr/local/etc/ I know about, but /private/etc/ is a new one on
me. Looks like OSX is redefining a lot of stuff.
[ma1:~] usern% ls -l /usr/bin/procmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 83112 Sep 23 09:21 /usr/bin/procmail
I note your procmail isn't suid root, meaning it's a bit less capable as an
LDA (unless your MTA is already running as root, and current sendmail
configs certainly shouldn't be).
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html>
Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
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