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- From: ti@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Kloas)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Problems with Smail & pipe
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 11:44:36 GMT
- Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
- Lines: 27
- Message-ID: <1dqrn4INN5jg@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
- References: <1992Nov10.062258.29204@Veritas.COM>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de
- Keywords: smail, netinfo
-
- In article <1992Nov10.062258.29204@Veritas.COM> tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S.
- Karr) writes:
- [ problemdescription deleted ]
-
- >Most likely, your aliases file is world writable. Smail doesn't allow
- >files or commands to be listed in world writable aliases files. You can
- >either change your aliases file, or you can change smail to allow world
- >writable files. To change smail to allow world-writable files, copy the
- >source file samples/generic/directors to /usr/lib/smail/directors and
- >edit it as you see fit for other localized changes. In the aliases
- >director, set "modemask=0" rather than the current "modemask=002".
-
- Things get a little bit complicated here.
- I don't use any aliases-file at all! The alias-infomation is stored in an
- Netinfo-database. Netinfo is by default not writable for normal users.
- Perhaps this is a bug with smails netinfo support?
-
- I tried to change modemask to 0, to see if this works with netinfo. It didn't
- change anything :-(.
-
- Next I will switch from Netinfo to an alias-file, but i do not like this
- solution very much.
-
- Anyway, thank you for your help,
-
-
- Matthias (ti@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de)
-