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Article #2199Re: Problems with Smail & pipe
From: Matthias Kloas
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:44
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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