[techtalk] mailman help

[Olivier Tharan]

Le 09 août 2000 a 13:58, JLG a écrit :
> here's  asnip of the maillog that gives an example of the error message
> I'm getting:
[ ... ]
> Aug  9 14:54:35 gundam sendmail[421]: OAA00421: forward
> /usr/share/mailman/.forward.gundam: Group writable directory

Sendmail does not like group-writable directories very much. This is
because everyone the same group as you could potentially change your
.forward file and thus receive your email.

do an 'ls -ld /usr/share/mailman' and look that the directory is indeed
group-writable; beware also of /usr and /usr/share as sendmail won't
like either them being group-writable (but they shouldn't be). Then do a
'chmod g-w /usr/share/mailman'

If the latter is not an option for you (eg Mailman has to write things
in this directory with group access and so on), you can use as a last
resort sendmail's option 'O GroupWritableForwardFileSafe'.

olive
-- 
		Olivier Tharan, <olive at minet.net>

Si c'était facile, les gens du matériel s'en occuperaient.