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Re: Problems with Smail & pipe

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From: Ronald S. Karr
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 06:22
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In article <1dltfkINNj93@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> ti@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Kloas) writes:
>I have problems some problems with smail and i am looking for help.
>I installed smail (3.1.28) on our Network (NeXTs running NS 2.1). Everything  
>works fine except one alias:
>
>BeNG: "|/usr/server/catmail -L BENG -f"
>
>Unfortunaly smail comes up with an the following error message:
>
>director aliases: matched BeNG, aliased to "| /usr/server/catmail -L BENG -f"
>write_log:no valid recipients were found for this message
>write_log:"| /usr/server/catmail -L BENG -f" ... failed: (ERR_104) director  
>aliases: security violation

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".
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	tron |-<=>-|		ARPAnet:  veritas!tron@apple.com
      tron@veritas.com		UUCPnet:  {apple,pyramid}!veritas!tron
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!veritas!tron
From: tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with Smail & pipe
Keywords: smail
Message-ID: <1992Nov10.062258.29204@Veritas.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 92 06:22:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: Veritas.1992Nov10.062258.29204
References: <1dltfkINNj93@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Organization: VERITAS Software
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