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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!news.rmii.com!rainbow!mugele From: mugele@rainbow.rmii.com (Erik Mugele) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail warning Date: 7 Dec 1995 17:14:47 GMT Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4a77e7$ego@natasha.rmii.com> References: <30C5CCF2.2781E494@otcinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rainbow.rmii.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] David R. Bixby (bix@otcinc.com) wrote: : Sendmail starts up with a "dangerous write permission warning". : I can't find any documentation on this problem or how to fix it. : Any ideas. Check the spool directories used by sendmail... for example: /var/spool/mqueue These should only be writable by root. Erik -- Erik Mugele * mugele@rmii.com * "Life is either a System Administrator * mugele@fafb.af.mil * daring adventure Falcon AFB, CO, USA * PGP encrypted email prefered. * or nothing." Radio: KG0XE, AFA5AD * http://www.rmii.com/~mugele * - Helen Keller