sendmail warning (error??)

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sfantul
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sendmail warning (error??)

Post by sfantul »

this is a message that i get on Openemm.sh start:
listener 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1702: Xbav: local socket name /home/openemm/var/run/bav.sock unsafe: World writable directory
Does anyone know what this means?
sfantul
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Post by sfantul »

I'm on a Ubuntu system with openemm 5.0.0 and please dont tell me to get the last version because i dont think this is the problem

Here are the permissions:

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root@kubuntu:/home/openemm# ls -l /home/openemm/var
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  2 openemm openemm 4096 2006-09-06 00:49 lock
drwxr-xr-x  2 openemm openemm 4096 2006-09-06 00:05 log
drwxr-xr-x  2 openemm openemm 4096 2006-09-06 00:49 run
drwxr-xr-x 11 openemm openemm 4096 2006-08-03 14:38 spool

root@kubuntu:/home/openemm# ls -l /home/openemm/var/run
total 16
srwxr-xr-x 1 openemm openemm  0 2006-09-06 00:49 bav.sock
-rw-r--r-- 1 openemm openemm 10 2006-09-06 00:49 bav-update.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 openemm openemm  6 2006-09-06 00:49 openemm.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 openemm openemm  6 2006-09-06 00:49 rdir.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 openemm openemm 25 2006-09-06 01:45 slrtscan.save

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Post by ud »

Is any part of the path world writable? Please check

/
/home
/home/openemm
/home/openemm/var

for access permissions.

-- ud
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Post by sfantul »

thx that was it. my 'home' directory was world writable
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