Right, it's now OK with that change. Thank you.

My only problem now is with Sendmail :

sudo newaliases /etc/mail/aliases: line 1: alias line too long /etc/mail/aliases: 0 aliases, longest 0 bytes, 0 bytes total

Everything seems to be OK with the alias file : – it's a plain text file – 1st line is a comment – 1st uncommented line has 23 chars (root: [TAB] username)

and also with the sendmail.cf : O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases

I really don't understand what's wrong in that stuff... I've sent a question to the Sendmail newsgroup but nobody answered.

Did somebody get this problem ?

Thanks for your help... (I'm quite stubborn... I WANT to finish it.. :- ))

Jean-Michel Biraghi 4D Hispano
28230 Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain http://www.4dhispano.com

El Thu, 09 Jan 2003 15:45:46 -0500, Steve Burling escribió :

--On Tuesday, January 7, 2003 11:27 AM +0100 Jean-Michel Biraghi <jmb@4dhispano.com> wrote:

...

W A R N I N G : G r o u p w r i t a b l e d i r e c t o r y /

What do you think about this warning ?

To which I reply:

The "Group writable directory" error is one of sendmail's security checks, and typically happens on Mac OS X because Apple's Installer *always* seems to make the root directory (/) group writable. Try this command:

sudo chmod g-w /

which removes the group writability on /, and see if that helps.

                                        -- Steve

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