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Re: Problems with Smail & pipe

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From: Matthias Kloas
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:44
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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)
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From: ti@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Kloas)
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Subject: Re: Problems with Smail & pipe
Date: 11 Nov 1992 11:44:36 GMT
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Keywords: smail, netinfo